On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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.
I am very interested to hear this.
As you can see from this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453124, I am having quite
a bit of problems with the madwifi driver + network manager... I'll
have to give that kernel a try, see if it works with the machine.
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