[wellylug] local Ubuntu tech support/hardware help

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Wed Mar 25 11:39:06 NZDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 11:26 +1300, John Barstow wrote:
> Generally speaking, we need to figure out what chipset your machine
> uses - Acer has a bad habit of changing this during a model's
> lifetime. A lot of their laptops use Atheros chips, which require one
> of 3(!) different drivers depending on the exact version used.
> Searching for "madwifi" or "ath_pci" will turn up lots of detailed
> information.

Best thing to do with any wifi problem is (like John says) to figure out
what the chipset is.

If you run:
/sbin/lspci

It will revel the card/chipset so we can track down what support there
is for it.


-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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