[Cialug] hp boot problems

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 1/29/08, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > Have you tried the madwifi drivers? If those don't work (you may need
> > to get the latest available) try ndiswrapper and the windows drivers.
>
> If it's a recent laptop, it may only have Vista drivers for the
> wireless card, in which case ndiswrapper is currently of little use.
> Vista-only drivers have been a huge pain in my posterior lately.

I've never used madwifi or ndiswrapper myself - I've been blessed with
hardware that has driver support in the generic kernel - but the
madwifi web pages seemed to indicate that it supported the atheros
chipset in question.

Jeff