[QCLUG] Wireless card for my laptop

[Robert Jones]

Thank You Steve, I wasn't smart enough to change the name of the 
backports from intrepid to jaunty :-( . I installed it again yesterday, 
the forth time, and it seems to be better. I'll watch it close and if it 
fails again I'll give the jaunty backport a try. I assume that I'll have 
to install the NDISWrapper to get that to work.
Thanks Again.
Bob Jones

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:01:10PM -0500, Chris Cooper wrote:
>   
>> Which dv 7 is it?  Specifically, do you know what wireless card is
>> installed?  It could very well be an issue with the driver.  If it is
>> atheros-based, Ubuntu 9.04 defaults to using the ath5k driver, which
>> has some known compatibility problems.  They include the madwifi
>> drivers, but don't use them as default do to the licensing.
>>     
>
> If it is an Atheros-based card, then I would suggest installing the
> linux-backports-modules-jaunty package which includes an updated version of
> the ath5k and ath9k drivers.  Many users report improvement with this
> version, which could not be used by default in Ubuntu 9.04 because it
> requires intrusive changes to the wireless stack common to other wireless
> drivers.
>
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