Custom F8 kernal and ath5k

[Greg Sieranski]

David G. Mackay wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 11:09 -0500, Greg Sieranski wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, I am very interested to see what you find out. Please keep me 
>> posted.
>>     
>
> Well, the bad news is that NetworkManager needs to stay disabled.  The
> good news is that handling things manually worked well.  As root I did a
> wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 \
> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf &
> dhclient ath0
>
> This negotiated the attachment to the router and got me a dhcp lease.
> The entry in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf looked like:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>
> network={
> 	ssid="routerssid"
> 	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> 	psk="My preshared key"
> 	}
>
>
> And, of course, you can have multiple network entries in the file.
>
> Dave
>
>
>   
Im excited that it worked. I am having some issues with my wireless 
again. After about 10mins of running it causes a kernal crash. So there 
is progress in that it is able to connect via WEP, now I just need it to 
stay connected.

gs