Re: madwifi and AR9285

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 03:40 +0300, Nicolas Barati wrote:
> Hello,
> Yesterday I bought a new Toshiba Satellite u500 laptop. It comes with
> an Atheros AR9285 wireless chipset. I want to ask if there is any
> madwifi release compatible with this kind of chipset.

No, but there is a patch for AR9285 support posted at
http://madwifi-project.org/ticket/2391

I don't know if anyone has tested or reviewed it yet.  If the patch
works for you, please report.

> Or if there isn't, what would you suggest I do?

As others said, ath9k should be a much better option.  You can use
compat-wireless to get the latest wireless drivers with your existing
kernel.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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