Atheros driver for 2.6.18 kernel

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emax
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Atheros driver for 2.6.18 kernel

Post by emax » 2013/08/04 15:00:07

I am looking for Atheros AR9485 wireless driver for 2.6.18 kernel version.
I have searched a lot and found two sources but not valid for this combination. The first one is the ath9k at Linux Wireless (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k) but even the oldest release does not support kernel less than 2.6.25. The second source is the madwifi project (http://madwifi-project.org/) for which MadWifi and ath5k does not support AR9485 while ath9k redirects to the Linux Wireless page.

So, I need help to either compile the ath9k driver for 2.6.18 kernel or get a precompiled driver for the required kernel release. The ath9k readme says, "Linux wireless subsystem enhancements for kernels 2.6.25 and above. It is technically possible to support kernels < 2.6.25 but more work is required for that." If someone knows how to compile for 2.6.18 kernel please help.

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Atheros driver for 2.6.18 kernel

Post by TrevorH » 2013/08/04 16:49:46

Did you look on [url=http://elrepo.org]ELRepo[/url]?

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Re: Atheros driver for 2.6.18 kernel

Post by emax » 2013/08/05 09:53:00

Nothing related on ELRepo.

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