ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 19:48 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[...]
> > Just to add that I do know about Madwifi, the non-free driver available
> > from Livna. I've installed it before on pre-F9 systems and have usually
> > managed to get it working after a fair amount of agony. I was just
> > hoping not to have to go that route with F9 as it is claimed to have
> > Atheros support now.
> >
> > In any case, I suspect the problem isn't in the actual driver itself but
> > in some interaction with NM.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> I have the same chipset in a EEEpc 702 and I found out that the 2.6.25 
> kernel doesn't  help, I went into the Rawhide repo
> on Fedora 9 and got the 2.6.27-fc10 kernel and installed the 2.6.27-fc10 
> in fc9 and now the wireless card works perfect.
> The moral of this story is that the 2.6.27 kernel has the drivers for 
> this chipset.

Interesting. I actually have the 2.6.26.3-29.fc9 kernel. Maybe I'll try
what you suggest.

poc