and pendrivelinux.com. Are there any plans to support the EeePC and the atheros-based wireless NICs installed?
For the EeePC, we borrowed a sample (a black 12GB SSD EeePC900 version with webcam and bigger screen) to check it out and found that the onboard wireless card is the Atheros AR5007 model which, based on information floating around (e.g. http://madwifi.org/ticket/1296), appears to be actually a Zydas USB-based chipset that was rebranded under the Atheros name afer Zydas was acquired by Atheros some time ago. Thus, it is not supported by the madwifi-ng 0.9.3 driver installed in the OSWA-Assistant (all versions up to and including 0.9.0.5e ). When the madwifi-ng project team releases a driver which supports the AR5007 Atheros-rebadged Zydas USB-based wireless chipset, then we will likely upgrade the driver then. In the meantime, there is no official support for the EeePC’s onboard AR5007 USB-based wireless chipset for the current OSWA-Assistant version 0.9.0.5e. UPDATE: According to the madwifi-ng website, “The new official HAL (0.10.5.6) supports AR5007EG (and AR5006EG) on 32-and 64-bit
