WIFI support (madwifi for atheros pci) lost in kernel 2.6.17-7-generic
System:
- Pentium D 805
- ECS RC410L/800Mv2
- Atheros AR5005G 802.11abg NIC
- Marvell 8300 802.11bg NIC
Installed from Dapper CD and upgraded to Edgy. System works with atheros wifi support with kernel <i>linux-
I built my own kernel from the 2.6.17.11 sources with SMP support, but otherwise staying close to the <i>386</i> config options. I still lose atheros support with this kernel.
I then tried using a Marvell 8300 wifi nic with the <i>generic</i> kernel and with my SMP kernel; and, this time there was a different problem. With the Marvell 8300, using ndiswrapper and the Asus WinXP drivers, I got <i>Soft lock detected on CPU1</i> in the syslog and the system completely froze.
Using the Marvell card and ndiswrapper on the uniprocessor <i>386</i> kernel and everything is fine.
Please instruct me on how to enable both wifi and SMP with Edgy.
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