I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which has
an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information for
Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:27:24 +1030, Bob & Gail wrote:

> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which has
> an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information for
> Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?

You'll probably have to find out what the chipset is.

on Friday 21 December 2007 05:57 pm, someone posing as Bob & Gail took a
rock and etched into the cave:

> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which
> has an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information
> for Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?

Why not just go with Intel? Never even heard of Azurewave.

However, after a few seconds with my good buddy, Google, I found the
following:

http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?t=12179

I also found this:

http://www.azurewave.com/Contact_Us-1.asp

Did you try that route?


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PerfectReign wrote:

> on Friday 21 December 2007 05:57 pm, someone posing as Bob & Gail took a
> rock and etched into the cave:
>
>> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which
>> has an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information
>> for Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?
>
> Why not just go with Intel? Â*Never even heard of Azurewave.
>
> However, after a few seconds with my good buddy, Google, I found the
> following:
>
> http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?t=12179
>
> I also found this:
>
> http://www.azurewave.com/Contact_Us-1.asp
>
> Did you try that route?
>
I found the Azurewave wireless card (AW-GE780) is used in the new Asus Eee
PC but it would appear people are switching them out. The freespire forum
appears to be talking about a Video capture device. This card is in all the
LG laptops. Think I'll buy her a Dell like mine works fine with OpenSUSE
10.3.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:00:56 -0800, PerfectReign wrote:

> on Friday 21 December 2007 05:57 pm, someone posing as Bob & Gail took a
> rock and etched into the cave:
>
>> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which
>> has an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information
>> for Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?
>
> Why not just go with Intel? Never even heard of Azurewave.
>
> However, after a few seconds with my good buddy, Google, I found the
> following:
>
> http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?t=12179
>
> I also found this:
>
> http://www.azurewave.com/Contact_Us-1.asp
>
> Did you try that route?

The OP can use an NDIS wrapper like I did before linux supported Broadcomm.

PerfectReign <theperfectreign******.com> writes:

>on Friday 21 December 2007 05:57 pm, someone posing as Bob & Gail took a
>rock and etched into the cave:

>> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which
>> has an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information
>> for Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?

>Why not just go with Intel? Never even heard of Azurewave.

>However, after a few seconds with my good buddy, Google, I found the
>following:

>http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?t=12179

Unfortunately that is someone floundering with trying to compile modules.
It does suggest that there is module mb86a which might have something to do
with that wireless card, but given the poster, it might not as well.


>I also found this:

>http://www.azurewave.com/Contact_Us-1.asp

Which is simply the contact for the manufacturer, which , if my experience
is any guide, is apt to be completely useless as a source of information
about Linux.

Anyway, one possibility is to stick in a live disk ( kubuntu, Mandrivaone,
mcnlive) and see if they can get the wireless working. If not it is still
not impossible ( ndiswrapper maywork with the windows driver) but it
becomes more iffy.


>Did you try that route?


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On 2007Äê12ÔÂ22ÈÕ, ÉÏÎç9ʱ57·Ö, Bob & Gail <aus....@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which has
> an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information for
> Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?

GE780 is used the chipset Atheros AR5006EG (I found it in this link
http://madwifi.org/ticket/859)
So your can using madwifi to support this device.

And I also find it was supported follow the link of the mac80211
support list (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers), using driver
aht5K.

Second one is more commone driver in Linux.

On 2007Äê12ÔÂ23ÈÕ, ÉÏÎç3ʱ08·Ö, Unruh <unruh-s....@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
> PerfectReign <theperfectre...******.com> writes:
> >on Friday 21 December 2007 05:57 pm, someone posing as Bob & Gail took a
> >rock and etched into the cave:
> >> I am looking at purchasing a laptop for the wife and she likes one which
> >> has an Azurewave 802.11b/g installed but I can find no driver information
> >> for Linux. Can anyone advise if one exists?
> >Why not just go with Intel? Never even heard of Azurewave.
> >However, after a few seconds with my good buddy, Google, I found the
> >following:
> >http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?t=12179
>
> Unfortunately that is someone floundering with trying to compile modules.
> It does suggest that there is module mb86a which might have something to do
> with that wireless card, but given the poster, it might not as well.
>
> >I also found this:
> >http://www.azurewave.com/Contact_Us-1.asp
>
> Which is simply the contact for the manufacturer, which , if my experience
> is any guide, is apt to be completely useless as a source of information
> about Linux.
>
> Anyway, one possibility is to stick in a live disk ( kubuntu, Mandrivaone,
> mcnlive) and see if they can get the wireless working. If not it is still
> not impossible ( ndiswrapper maywork with the windows driver) but it
> becomes more iffy.>Did you try that route?
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> >www.perfectreign.com