[wplug] Debian and Atheros Wireless card

[Soni, Abhishek]

Hello everyone,

I have a couple of interconnected questions and they relate to getting my 
wireless working with Debian. 

Details: I have a Netgear WG511 wireless card based on the Atheros chipset 
which uses madwifi drivers. 
Also I am running Debian on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2430-S255) Sarge 
with kernel 2.4.27-1-386. 

Now I previously had this card working in Ubuntu but there are some programs 
that I need, that will work only with a 2.4 kernel. Hence I had to switch to 
Debian. In order to install the madwifi drivers, I need to install the 
kernel-source. So I did an apt-get install kernel-source but it just 
downloads it.

I am a relative newcomer to Debian so my questions are:

1. any simple readme page or set of instructions to compile the kernel 
source so that i can get the madwifi drivers installed? 

2. is there another simpler way to get the wireless card working?

Thanks,
Abhi
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