[Discuss] My first laptop...bummer

[Andrew Willard]

David Lee wrote:

> I just bought my first laptop. It's a Toshiba with an Atheros 5007(G?) wire less adapter.

Which model of Toshiba... might help.

> I bought it 'cause the Atheros website said it was a big fan of Linux etc, etc.

Ya... well you could always try the madwifi drivers... http://madwifi.org/

There is also some discussion on this forum... seems you need to determine exactly
which card you have and then try the example given or the madwifi stuff.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/using-the-atheros-wireless-driver-593047/

I personally wouldn't buy another card when you have not exhausted all avenues
to get the internal device working. Let's work through the problem...