Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG

[Arthur Pemberton]

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.
>
> Today, I upgraded my kernel, and the latest special Madwifi snapshot
> wouldn't build.  This has happened in the past, last time, someone on
> this list had submitted a patch to fix it.
>
> Just for fun, I decided to try modprobing ath5k and seeing if the card
> might be recognized and work.
>
> 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 know that at least one other person on this list uses the card.  I'd
> be interested if other folks with that card (The older EEE PC uses it,
> though I believe the 900 series uses a realink of some sort, but it's
> fairly popular in lower end laptops) are also having success.  Thanks
> for any input.
>
> To the kernel developers, thank you, great work.


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.

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