Switching to the Open source Athero driver after Mandriva 2009 upgrade
October 12, 2008
Mandriva 2009 comes with a new open source Athero driver, but because I upgraded rather than reinstall, it was still stuck on the old madwifi driver. Here’s what I did to get rid of it and switch to the new driver.
- Install and Remove software and type in madwifi to search for all instances of madwifi. Uninstall all instances of madwifi.
- Reboot the laptop.
- For some reason, it doesn’t automatically detect the athero. I opened up a command line, login as root and typed:modprobe ath5k
The laptop should now be on the new open source driver from now on. You may need to re-enter your wireless configurations.
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Mike | March 1, 2009 at 4:18 am
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