blogs.computerworld.com— At long last, Atheros has opened up the last binary barriers to making completely open-source, Linux-friendly drivers for its popular Wi-Fi chipsets.
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Yours is broken. You need to return the unit if you still can.I've owned 5 Acer Aspire Ones for so long that during my return process the last one I got had the bigger hard drive.The wireless will work fine in XP, but not Linux. I installed Ubuntu dozens of times side-by-side with the working unit and the others simply never worked. Two of them would have the connection die/freeze during transfers (often using Update Manager) and one of them the wireless simply died.I promise you that you have a defective model. Don't torture yourself any longer. Through process of elimination and repetition FAR beyond what is considered thorough (or sane), I can promise you that your system is broken and no software will fix it.
@ScottyMcBaggs : sorry@mrsteveman1 : They tried to feed me the FCC story as well but I call BS. I don't think the FCC picks which companies follow what rules. I know all my toshiba laptops are not locked down. HP is operated by pricks. I tried to get in contact with the FCC (as i needed to prove if this was true or not before trying to take HP to court) but it was to much of a hassle and just trashed my 2 hp laptops and got nice toshibas with very nice specs at a good price. At the same time I trashed everything else I own from HP/Compaq.
excellent! have the chipsets of the OEMs (dell, hp, who i am aware don't make their own wifi modules but sometimes brand them under their own name) already done so?
I have a laptop with Ubuntu Linux on it. I don't know how to give it WiFi internet but I wish I did! I wish I could be given instructions on how to give it WiFi internet in a reply to my comment here on Digg. : ) Just FYI this laptop was originally an XP laptop and it does NOT have WiFi built in, so I assume I would have to purchase something in order to give it WiFi? If so, what do I purchase? Where do I begin? And what if someone says something about NDISWrapper and then I'm lost? I want to get more excited about open source stuff, but its hard when after I installed Ubuntu on an XP computer, I can't get on WiFi internet, I feel like it would have been better just to keep the laptop XP and buy a USB WiFi Dongle!
As follow-up...As of Feburary 2009:Atheros has not released source code for the madwifi driver used in the AP81 and AP83 router boards. In particular, the AR9102 and AR9103 chips. They only seem to allow distribution of a binary-only ath_ahb.ko driver that works only with Linux 2.6.15. That is a Linux that is now over 3 years old!Where is it?
aerionDec 1, 2008
Come on, Nvidia, what are you waiting for?!
smacksawDec 1, 2008
Yours is broken. You need to return the unit if you still can.I've owned 5 Acer Aspire Ones for so long that during my return process the last one I got had the bigger hard drive.The wireless will work fine in XP, but not Linux. I installed Ubuntu dozens of times side-by-side with the working unit and the others simply never worked. Two of them would have the connection die/freeze during transfers (often using Update Manager) and one of them the wireless simply died.I promise you that you have a defective model. Don't torture yourself any longer. Through process of elimination and repetition FAR beyond what is considered thorough (or sane), I can promise you that your system is broken and no software will fix it.
smacksawDec 1, 2008
Agreed. My wireless drivers always smell like paprika.
govatentDec 2, 2008
@ScottyMcBaggs : sorry@mrsteveman1 : They tried to feed me the FCC story as well but I call BS. I don't think the FCC picks which companies follow what rules. I know all my toshiba laptops are not locked down. HP is operated by pricks. I tried to get in contact with the FCC (as i needed to prove if this was true or not before trying to take HP to court) but it was to much of a hassle and just trashed my 2 hp laptops and got nice toshibas with very nice specs at a good price. At the same time I trashed everything else I own from HP/Compaq.
aserer511Dec 2, 2008
excellent! have the chipsets of the OEMs (dell, hp, who i am aware don't make their own wifi modules but sometimes brand them under their own name) already done so?
casinoplayer2Dec 6, 2008
After receiving 100.000 emails, they'll decide to go back to the proprietary HAL code :P
baltimoremark1Dec 12, 2008
I have a laptop with Ubuntu Linux on it. I don't know how to give it WiFi internet but I wish I did! I wish I could be given instructions on how to give it WiFi internet in a reply to my comment here on Digg. : ) Just FYI this laptop was originally an XP laptop and it does NOT have WiFi built in, so I assume I would have to purchase something in order to give it WiFi? If so, what do I purchase? Where do I begin? And what if someone says something about NDISWrapper and then I'm lost? I want to get more excited about open source stuff, but its hard when after I installed Ubuntu on an XP computer, I can't get on WiFi internet, I feel like it would have been better just to keep the laptop XP and buy a USB WiFi Dongle!
roundsparrowFeb 10, 2009
As follow-up...As of Feburary 2009:Atheros has not released source code for the madwifi driver used in the AP81 and AP83 router boards. In particular, the AR9102 and AR9103 chips. They only seem to allow distribution of a binary-only ath_ahb.ko driver that works only with Linux 2.6.15. That is a Linux that is now over 3 years old!Where is it?