[KLUG Members] puppy linux with atheros chipset...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> when i attended last tuesdays meeting (i'm the guy who donated the 7 computers) i noticed that 
> andrew thompson was running puppy linux on his laptop. soooo, i got interested in it for my old 
> compaq armada 1750 laptop. i downloaded the latest live-cd iso and away i went. it's a nice little 
> distro. very responsive on old hardware.
> anyway, i use a netgear w511t pcmcia card that has the atheros chipset for wireless. this card works 
> great in suse (i think i'm using the madwifi drivers...could be wrong). i tried using wireless 
> config in puppy but stumbled on which diver to select. does anyone have any tips for me? i checked 
> the puppy forums and i do not see anything of interest there.

I have an Atheros chipset in my SuSe laptop, it is running with the
madwifi drivers.  But, if I remember correctly, the Atheros chipset
loads some non-GPL binary firmware module.  So it might not be included
in some distributions.  I don't know anything about puppy linux.

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