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.
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