The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    HP is now using atheros wireless cards.

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by cosmic ac, Nov 24, 2008.

  1. cosmic ac

    cosmic ac Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    111
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    HP is now using atheros wireless cards on some models including the G60-120US models. The atheros card works with linux better than the broadcom models that HP uses on other models. This information is hard to find and it is not clear on HP's web site which computers use which card.
     
    cosmic ac, Nov 24, 2008
    #1
  2. Charr

    Charr Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    415
    Messages:
    1,564
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    It is ABGN, so it is probably an AR5008X chip. They are very good, I am using on in my thinkpad. Works great with Madwifi 0.10.5.6, doesn't work well with ath9k.
     
    Charr, Nov 24, 2008
    #2
  3. Telkwa

    Telkwa Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    68
    Messages:
    294
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm hearin' that Ubuntu 8.10 supports several wireless chipsets that were a pain. Anyone had any luck with these Atheros cards and 8.10?
     
    Telkwa, Nov 25, 2008
    #3
  4. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

    Reputations:
    2,503
    Messages:
    1,794
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Yep!
    My Atheros wireless, AR5008 rev1 according to lspci, has worked ootb for the first time with 8.10.
    Bye, bye MadWifi. :)
     
    Baserk, Nov 25, 2008
    #4
  5. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

    Reputations:
    1,988
    Messages:
    5,253
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Broadcom support has also improved tenfold, it doesn't work in the Live CD, but is out of the box on the install.
    And the ATI FOSS driver is enabled by default :D
    Compiz in the Live CD!
     
    Thomas, Nov 25, 2008
    #5
  6. Charr

    Charr Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    415
    Messages:
    1,564
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    8.10 comes with the ath9k drivers, which are really spotty. If you have an Atheros chip, the Madwifi drivers are a better choice at this point.
     
    Charr, Nov 26, 2008
    #6
  7. cosmic ac

    cosmic ac Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    111
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    compac has come out with it's version of the g60-120us called the Q60-215dx it uses broadcom wireless cards. This is strange since compaq uses atheros on it's other models
     
    cosmic ac, Jan 8, 2009
    #7