Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG

[Christopher Brown]

2008/8/9 Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:05:54PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > 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 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.
>
> I don't use resume at all, so I'm not sure if it will fix the problem
> you're having.  It would be nice if it did.  I'm wondering if this ath5k
> module is going to be backported.

To what? It's in Fedora 9 already.

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Christopher Brown

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