I'm having trouble getting my wifi card to operate under slax. The card is reported as an atheros ar9285 under win7 and under slax it is an atheros unknown device. This is a new Compaq CQ61 laptop.
I've tried the atl1 and atl2 modules and also the madwifi. Any ideas?
Thanks beny. I'd like to stick with the current slax kernel for this unit and find a native solution. Before i can use wicd i need to have the card recognized! There is no wireless interface to play with as yet so i need to find drivers first.
I believe it uses ath9k which comes standard with vanilla slax 6.12 but buggered if i can get it to work.
EDIT:
after looking around further it appears AR9285 (>= 2.6.29)
hi you can find windows driver,and copy in /opt,after install ndiswrapper,and in konsole:ndiswrapper -i /opt/InstallationFiles/XP2K/rt2870.inf that is mine,you have different driver. after:ndiswrapper -l.look if driver are loaded: you have look driver.after modprobe ndiswrapper,now install wicd and execute chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd,start daemon with: /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd start,reboot system,and if all is ok you surf web with wicd.
Like i said i'd like to find a native solution if possible. I will keep hammering away for a while and use ndiswrapper as a last resort.
I updated /usr/sahre/pci.ids with the latest snapshot and now slax is recognizing the card as atheros ar9285 pci-express however still no joy when loading ath9k module. Tomorrow i'll upgrade kernel if nothing is sorted by then. Thanks for your replies.
Hi,
using the latest compat-wireless can resolve your problem as it's
synced to the latest wireless-next.
I am "maintaining" (sort of..) a version for slax current.
nimh
ps: if you can compile your compat-wireless without to much
bloat using ./scripts/driver-select ath9k
I had already tried compat (but not the latest) without success, the latest version worked great.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Check that slax recognizes your wifi card. lspci
If your wireless card is being tagged as unknown then you need to update your pci.ids file
wget http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids.gz
gunzip pci.ids.gz
mv /usr/share/pci.ids /usr/share/pci.ids.bak
cp pci.ids /usr/share
Reboot here and then run lspci again to see if your card is tagged properly
Make sure you have headers installed there should be a symlink called build and you should get output from this command file /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
This is not an easy solution, but it seems possible. For those commands that you do net understand, just use google with keywords. The kernel for slax612 does not contain your driver.
Headers is the difficult term here. In command line mode to get your version of the kernel:
uname -r.
Download the corresponding file from the given hyperlink and install it's as a module after conversion with tgz2lzm command.
You will lean much about linux and slax trying Jayflood's solution. He is a a Linux connoisseur.
If you have the courage try the solution, and ask kindly for some help. There are always nice people around.
Or have the patience to wait for slax7 and its new kernel that might cover your wifi card.
