Thread: I Need a Kindle Dx WiFi Hack
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Old 06-21-2011, 04:59 PM   #17
yifanlu
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I've bought a AR5B half-mini pci wifi card
wich has atheros chipset
I've installed on my kindle DXg, then make a reboot, but if I type lspci it didn't recognise it
I don't know if there's a bios block like for hp o IBM notebook on wifi card (on hw pid)
athk5 it's supported by kernel 2.6.26 (kindle 3 kernel)

../gplrelease-3.1/linux-2.6.26/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k

AR61026 it's only for embedded
You still need to recompile the linux kernel for Kindle (and add that module for support via menuconfig). It only comes with modules for stuff it has.

And FYI: When you recompile the kernel, you need to copy over all modules (not just the new ones), that's how I bricked my first Kindle.
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