--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Scott Robbins <scottro(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote:
From: Scott Robbins <scottro(a)nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 4:45 PM
For a long time, the Atheros 5007EG hasn't worked with
the ath5k module,
and those of us who had it used MadWifi.
Today, I upgraded my kernel, and the latest special Madwifi
snapshot
wouldn't build. This has happened in the past, last
time, someone on
this list had submitted a patch to fix it.
Just for fun, I decided to try modprobing ath5k and seeing
if the card
might be recognized and work.
It seems that it does. This is running
2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.x86_64. I modprobed ath5k and
saw that I now
had a visible wlan0 card. Did ifconfig up and iwlist scan
and it saw
the networks. I then adjusted wpa_supplicant (which I use
rather than
NetworkManager--I use fluxbox most of the time and often
just boot into
runlevel 3) and Lo! and Behold! it worked.
I know that at least one other person on this list uses the
card. I'd
be interested if other folks with that card (The older EEE
PC uses it,
though I believe the 900 series uses a realink of some
sort, but it's
fairly popular in lower end laptops) are also having
success. Thanks
for any input.
To the kernel developers, thank you, great work.
--
Scott Robbins
Works with my cheap Atheros-based wireless card [Atheros
Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)] too!