Which Linux supports Atheros out of the box?

Baron Samedi wrote:
> Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
> immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>
> Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
> back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
> select a key other than 1.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
I just replaced Mepis on my laptop with a copy of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SabayonLinux

It worked from the start with a DWL G630 after a few moments of

fiddling , easiest so far . ( although there is another version of this
card which might not as well , there are two places of manufacture)

Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?

Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
select a key other than 1.

Thanks in advance

Baron Samedi wrote:
> Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
> immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>
> Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
> back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
> select a key other than 1.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
Hmmm,
If you use ndiswrapper, any WiFi card will work fine.
WEP key? WPA is a minimum.

atec77 wrote:
> Baron Samedi wrote:
>> Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
>> immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>>
>> Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
>> back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
>> select a key other than 1.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> http://madwifi.org/
> should help

I believe he is asking whether any distro includes madwifi. He does not
want to add the modules separately himself.

I do not know about distros other than Fedora, but Fedora easily
integrates cooperating partner repositories. I use Fedora 5 & 6, and add
the livna.org repository that allows me to automagically pick up MadWiFi
modules that track Fedora kernel updates.

> Hmmm,
> If you use ndiswrapper, any WiFi card will work fine.
> WEP key? WPA is a minimum.

I think "Open System" is the mininum. There is no a single solution. You
can use "Open System", WEP or WPA in function of you needs.

Bye.

Philip <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > http://madwifi.org/ should help

> I believe he is asking whether any distro includes madwifi. He does not
> want to add the modules separately himself.

As far as I know, the only built ins are for old Proxim/Orinoco cards, and
the Intel Centrino internal WiFi.

> I do not know about distros other than Fedora, but Fedora easily
> integrates cooperating partner repositories. I use Fedora 5 & 6, and add
> the livna.org repository that allows me to automagically pick up MadWiFi
> modules that track Fedora kernel updates.

I tried adding a MADWifi to RHEL ES 3 for a supported card, but I didn't
have a supported kernel rev for the built binaries at atrpm. Mine was too
old. I built the modules, and it all worked.

I think that might have been a temporary thing. I have an FC6 laptop now,
and of course I bought the same card, since I knew it was supported.
There seem to be plenty of back-rev rpms available for fc6, but it is not
as clear as it could be what you really need to download.

It's also not clear what you need to do in terms of GUI and boot time to
get the same integration that eth0 has.

I'll probably get it working in the next day or two. I thought about
adding "yum" since that seems to be a straightforward answer, in that it is
supposed to fetch what it needs to fetch. Ah, that works with livna.org,
but "(Note: At 14th March 2006, Livna was still using madwifi-old). "

I saw rpm.livna.org mentioned, but didn't follow that. For FC6 and a DLink
DWL-G630 that has an Atheros chipset (not all do) is the livna.org a
one-line installation? Weeding through the multiple RPMS from atrpm is
just tedious. Fetch one of these, one of these, and the appropriate one of
this, this, and this, based on the output of uname -r... That could be
made so much easier by making it separate lists, or providing a fetchit
script that would do the uname -r analysis.

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Baron Samedi wrote:
> Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
> immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>
> Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
> back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
> select a key other than 1.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
http://madwifi.org/
should help

On 31 Mar 2007 07:15:55 -0700, "Baron Samedi" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed) .com>:

>Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
>immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>
>Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
>back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
>select a key other than 1.

WEP is too easily cracked to be of any real value. If at all possible,
use WPA instead.

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Baron Samedi wrote:
> Fed up with Linux wifi woes. Which distro will support Atheros
> immediately after install, without adding kernel modules, etc?
>
> Oh, and I use WEP key 3, not 1 and when I tried Mepis a few months
> back it recognised the Atheros immediately, but had not option to
> select a key other than 1.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
PCLINUXOS http://pclnuxos.com supports it out of the box. This is the
one that is in my laptop and PCLOS say it right off with no mess or fussing

06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)