Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Christopher Brown
<snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/10 Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:17:36AM +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
>>>> 2008/8/9 Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>:
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > 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.
>>>
>>> In Fedora 9, I'd been using the livna-testing repo's version of MadWifi.
>>> Thanks for the information, I just tried the F9 version.  However, it
>>> doesn't work for me with that card, and I had to go back to the livna
>>> madwifi.
>>
>> Aside from the suspend issues, the livna drivers work. But not being
>> able to standby/suspend is a fairly big issue for a laptop.
>
> And as such it never will. The livna drivers are deprecated and all
> work is now being carried out on the ath5k/ath9k tree.


This is even more useful information. Would have loved to know about
this before, since I've just been waiting on the bug reports hping
something gets updated. As soon as I try the ath5k version, I'll
report back.


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