Support for important hardware components used in notebook computers

The card reader is most likely supported in 2.6.23 by the following patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8352260d28b30cb2bb2df99814fb9c360e38901

Unfortunately the kernel in Gutsy will be (based on) 2.6.22 so the kernel maintainers will need to backport the patch. The patch does look non-intrusive, so here's to hoping it will get included in the gutsy kernel :)

I have a card reader based on the same chip, so I'd like to see this included as well.

The gspca webcam drivers work, at least for the Orbicam on my Acer 3012WTMi, at a basic level -- can get sensor output via v4l programs and mplayer, but no adjustment of sensor capture rate, brightness, colour, etc.

My camera reports a vendorID/productID of 046d:0896.

This works with kernel 2.6.20, with a compiled gspca-source package. I recommend using the module-assistant program (aptitude install gspca-source, then run module-assistant and select gspca from the package list).

You can test out the webcam with mplayer:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:outfmt=i420 -vc rawi420 -vo xv

More information on currently supported cameras here:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

I have the same problem with my atheros AR5007EG wireless lan card in my Toshiba A215 S4747 AMD Turion 64x2 laptop. I have the Gusty beta amd64 version installed. I have installed the ndiswrapper and use the 64 bits windows vista .inf driver of the atheros card. It shows up as correctly installed in the Windows Wireless Drivers tool: Netathrx, hardware present: yes., I disabled the restricted atheros drivers as suggested by the experts. But when I open the configuration tag for the wireless card, it does not show up in the network configuration Manager window, nor when I use the iwconfig console command.. I do not know what else to do. Any ideas? any body?

I have a Toshiba U305-87448 that has Atheros R5007EG wireless. It does not work in Gutsy Release Candidate Open running the live CD.

I just (minutes ago) got the wireless on my Acer 5100-5455 working with ndiswrapper
under 64bit Feisty; I had tried several times with older 64bit drivers that didn't handle
the chipset correctly, but once I found the correct driver, it just worked. I remember
reading somewhere that the Vista drivers don't work, you need an XP 64-bit driver. If
you go to http://www.atheros.cz/ you get a table of devices, the one which worked for
me was the AR5007EG WinXP 64bit. You just click on the blue checkmark to download it.

Hope this helps someone. (I know it is really off topic for the bug report.)

I cant do work my AR5007EG ...... :S

MadWifi 0.9.3.3 drivers support the wifi card ...... it will be include in Hardy ¿?

Bison webcam worked on a previous version of ubuntu, but the camera is not detected with Hardy alpha 4 kernel 2.6.24-7. Sorry that I can't remember which version--probably Gutsy. This appears to be regression. Laptop is a Darter 2 aka MSI-1221.

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