On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 06:57:31AM -0700, G.Spyra wrote: > > Hi, > > During the installation of Debian Lenny 5.0 from dvd iso (Debian GNU/Linux > 5.0.0 "Lenny" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090214-16:54) on my laptop > without connection an ethernet card to a network and after successfully > installation. > I've attempted install a driver for my wireless card (Atheros AR5007EG) from > www.madwifi-project.org (madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current) and my box doesn't > see the wireless card correctly just like wifi0 with a mac address 00... > > BUT doing the same installation as above with connection an ethernet card to > a network I got a wirless card working fine as ath0. > > It's looks like the madwifi wireless driver need activation on plug in wire > to the ethernet card. (not make sense?) > > I don't know where is the bug I just report the bug.
This list is about ath5k the upstream Linux kernel driver. For that please upgrade to at least 2.6.27 and then you can use something like compat-wireless to get the latest ath5k driver. Please be sure to dump your madwifi driver. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
