Madwifi question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:19:03PM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> I've got a newbie-esque question to ask the list. I have an Atheros wifi 
> card in my laptop
> that I would like to get working. I've done a fair bit of research and 
> it looks like I'll have
> the best shot with the madwifi driver. The problem is that Mandriva 
> lists 5 different rpms
> for madwifi:
> 
> - madwifi-0.20050121-2mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-0.20050121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdkBOOT-0.20050121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-i586-up-1GB-0.20020121-1mdk
> - madwifi-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-i686-up-4GB-0.20050121-1mdk
> 
> The question is which one do I use? Uname -r  gives 2.6.11 as the 
> installed kernel and
> the laptop is a Toshiba Satellite with a 2.8Ghz Celeron and 512 MB ram.

What do you have in /boot?

What does asking your package manager for a list of installed kernel
packages say the version of the package is?  Does uname -r really only
say 2.6.11 and nothing else?

Lennart Sorensen
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