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Old 31st October 2009
ionflux ionflux is offline
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Hi Guys,

Thank you for your quick replies!! Very much appreciated.

Yes, installing the nvidia driver was the first thing I tried, but the "make install clean" command stops with the message "nvidia driver 185.18.36 is only for i386 and you are running amd64"

What is interesting is that NetBSD 5.0.1 recognizes this card and runs X perfectly.
I would be very happy if I could run NetBSD on this machine, but unfortunately it does not recognize my wireless card (Atheros AR9281) - which I absolutely need.

I guess one cannot have everything in life

One thing I noticed though is that on the NetBSD-HEAD man page for ath it shows that my wireless card should now be supported. Is there a way to extract only that driver from NetBSD-HEAD and insert it into my NetBSD-5 stable?? I don't feel comfortable running HEAD as I am a complete beginner. Also, my apologies if the question is stupid!!

Thank you so much for your help!!
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