Given that a virtual machine doesn't touch the bare metal on the machine, I doubt it would help much. As it was, I did the wipe and reinstall, made sure it was on, reinstalled linux... and the damn thing was turned off again. *shrug*
From what I'm reading, a hardware abstraction layer for this chipset doesn't exist yet anyway (Atheros doesn't bother; it's left up to a hobbyist), so I'm down to a few fairly slim possibilities. I could try the windows driver with NDISwrapper, which might work; there are a couple of utilities to handle things like hotkeys for specific laptops which also might work.
There is also the possibility of just replacing the chipset, which I'm leaning heavily toward. New, compatible mini-PCI/mini-PCIe cards can be obtained.
I'll be doing more hacking on it when I'm past finals. I have a half-completed installation notes page that I'll put up when I'm done documenting the current condition and possible solutions, and that'll note what I've tried and recommend. :/
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Date: 2008-06-09 00:05 (UTC)From what I'm reading, a hardware abstraction layer for this chipset doesn't exist yet anyway (Atheros doesn't bother; it's left up to a hobbyist), so I'm down to a few fairly slim possibilities. I could try the windows driver with NDISwrapper, which might work; there are a couple of utilities to handle things like hotkeys for specific laptops which also might work.
There is also the possibility of just replacing the chipset, which I'm leaning heavily toward. New, compatible mini-PCI/mini-PCIe cards can be obtained.
I'll be doing more hacking on it when I'm past finals. I have a half-completed installation notes page that I'll put up when I'm done documenting the current condition and possible solutions, and that'll note what I've tried and recommend. :/