Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, considering Atheros based cards haven't been supported out of the
> box in openSUSE since 10.1; I don't think most users will have a
> problem. Those that do will install MadWifi like we've had to before.

No.  The problem is that the "new" ath5k driver is now included in the
kernel.  You don't have to build madwifi for the 52xx series chips.
However, YaST will see older chips(like the 2413 in my DLink card) and
then automatically use the ath5k driver WHICH WILL NOT WORK!

Therefore, someone who doesn't know will just assume that their
wireless will work, and then it WON'T.  Trust me, I discovered the
problem on my Powerbook.  It works fine after I compile the madwifi
driver.  But anyone who uses automatic setup for hardware will have
the ath5k driver used for nonsupported cards and then they won't have
wireless working.

Support worked just fine for my 5212/5213 based card(although I did
recently uncover that bug....).
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