ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 14:58 -0400, Mike Burger wrote:
> Just a side note...unsupported by Red Hat/Fedora does not mean
> non-free.
> 
> The MadWifi drivers are, as I recall, open source.

Not completely. The problem is that they use a HAL layer which is
binary-only and taints the kernel. The ath5k project is an attempt to
get round this using only free software. See
http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/ath5k

poc