LXer: How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled ker

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LXer: How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled ker

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05-27-2009, 11:20 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,331 Rep:	LXer: How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled ker Published at LXer: How to get ath5k working on Jaunty with Compat-wireless and a self-compiled kernel. I used to have some trouble while setting up my Atheros PCI card on Ubuntu Linux 9.04. It worked natively on Ubuntu 8.04, where it was detected as ath0. I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 whereby I noticed my wireless PCI card didn’t work natively anymore. Someone suggested me to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 Jaunty, and I did that immediately. After the system upgrade I noticed again that my wireless device was gone in Ubuntu 9.04. When I ran iwconfig I didn’t see wlan0 or ath0 anymore. Read More...

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