Toshiba laptop

[David Bandel]

On 9/7/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On 09/07/2005 05:42 PM, David Bandel wrote:
> > On 9/7/05, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> >> Seeking opinions for linux usage:
> >>
> >> I see a very cheap Toshiba Satellite A85-S107
> >>
> >> 15" screen
> >> Celeron M 1.4ghz
> >> 256megs mem (upgradeable)
> >> 40gig HD
> >> DVD/CD-RW combo drive
> >> Atheros 802.11b/g/wireless
> >
> > not sure if there's an open-source linux driver for the Atheros card.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's what the MADwifi driver supports.

That's what it's _supposed_ to support.  But the last time (about a
month ago) I was at the sourceforge madwifi site, no files had been
released.  No files, no support.

Now a little driver story:
About two weeks ago, another WISP came to me and said they were having
trouble with a link, could I help.  They could put up a pair of radios
and get a link.  Not a great link, but a link.  However, they wanted
to use radios with the Atheros chipset.  So they had Microtik routers,
but no link.  I handed him two compact flash drives and told him to
use these.  They had StarOS on them.  He swapped out the Mikrotic OS
for StarOS and the link came up solid, stable, and they haven't looked
back.  Drivers for hardware are everything.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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