Linux版Atheros无线网卡驱动程序

Atheros AR8131 网卡驱动下载地址：（包括windows 驱动 和 Linux驱动） http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx Atheros AR9285无线网卡驱动，由开源项目MadWifi支持 在sourceforge搜索MadWifi可以找到： http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ 最新的Atheros无线网卡驱动主页： http://madwifi-project.org/ 对于新版本linux kernel 2.6.25之后（现在都是这个以上的内核），要用新的current版本。 http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz In case you use kernel 2.6.25 or newer, you need to get this snapshot of the madwifi-0.9.4 branch instead of the v0.9.4 release! That snapshot is basically v0.9.4 plus compilation fixes for recent kernels. Atheros无线网卡驱动介绍： http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros AR9285无线网卡驱动 http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k Any distribution shipping a kernel >= 2.6.27 will have ath9k present but the ath9k driver on 2.6.32 is the oldest one recommended, anything older than that is completely unsupported. Below is a list of the minimal distribution requirements to either use ath9k from 2.6.27 or from compat-wireless, which lets you install newer drivers on older kernels. Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Fedora Core 10 openSUSE 11.1 Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (formally known as Mandrake Linux) ARCH Linux Gentoo Linux Red Flag Linux 7.0 (based on Fedora 10) RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel being tested When it went in ath9k was announced to have been merged into Linux-2.6.27-rc3 by Linus on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:33:16 -0700 (PDT), and consisted of 58.8% of the entire rc3 patch. Early distributions which picked it up OpenWrt became the first distribution to pick up ath9k and contribute to it.