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From: James <bjlockie@××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:35:41
Message-Id: 3b6c8b6cdb81df67c323eea70ecf1f5f.squirrel@www.lockie.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros 5xxx driver in kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 by Kan-I Jyo
1 On Mon, June 23, 2008 10:22 am, Kan-I Jyo wrote:
2 > Though I do not own a model as you have metion, but I believe that the
3 > ath5k driver module will not be found in kernels less than 2.6.25.
4 >
5 > In other word, you may have to wait for 2.6.25 or later gentoo-source
6 > to be marked as stable or do
7 >
8 > # echo "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
9 >
10 >
11 > to use a not-yet-stable version of kernel.
12 >
13 >
14 > 2008/6/23 Zhou Rui <ghoulr@×××××.com>:
15 >
16 >> Hi everyone,
17 >> I'm using gentoo in my UMPC fujitsu U1010 which has a Atheros superG
18 >> wireless card. I found the wiki says there is a kernel option can compile
19 >> Atheros 5xxx WLAN driver into the kernel, but I cannot find it in my
20 >> kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 (emeged as gentoo-sources). So where can I get a
21 >> kernel with the Atheros driver?
22 >>
23 >> Thanks.
24 >> Zhou Rui
25 >>
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 > --
30 > Sincerely,
31 >
32 >
33 > Jyo
34 > --
35 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
36 >
37 >
38
39 I usually compile a recent kernel from kernel.org.
40 It is not hard.
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