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

[Mark Bystry]

i'm still on a quest to find the lightest and most practical linux distro for my old laptop. i 
figured if i can get wireless working with a live-cd then i can do it with an install.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 3/3/2006 1:43 PM:
>> 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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