Vincent Arnold

Wt?

Well, finally got back to getting Fedora 7 installed on the notebook. As I mentioned earlier, everything worked out of the box except WiFi. In order to get my wifi card working, which was by the way an Atheros Ar5006EG card, I had to rebuild the kernel with 8k stacks instead of 4k stacks and use an ndiswrapper for the Windows XP driver for this card. Once that was completed, guess what? My sound card wouldn’t initiate. At this point, which included several hours of troubleshooting, coding and hunting, I started looking at the purchase receipt for this notebook really, really hard.

I guess I didn’t expect to have to get as involved with the kernel in order to get wifi up and running but I will have different expectations going forward.  What bugs me is that the Atheros card is “SUPPOSEDLY” the most widely supported card in Linux.

Yeah, right…

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 8th, 2007 at 5:22 am and is filed under Mobile Tech.