what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

[Steve Franks]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, David Gurvich
<david.gurvich at verizon.net> wrote:
> Some atheros cards are not supported.  Is there any error message?
> What is the card actually called?
>

No error messages to speak of.  It's like it's not there.  It works
fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have mentioned earlier.
 Really hating having bought a compaq.

Steve