Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:26:08 -0500 | Subject | Re: wireless Q | From | (Lennart Sorensen) |
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear > WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the > fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the > chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it > that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has that > support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live. But > I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till I can > try it. I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case in the > doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to replace a 30GB > that upchucked all over their windows install, and convince it to let me > install windows on that box the 2nd time. M$ are such rectums over that. > Its piracy you know. :(
Atheros makes a lot of different chipsets. Not all are supported. Many newer ones require annoying firmware loaded into an arm processor on the card. Hopefully you found one that does have a working driver.
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