Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Daniel Fuhrmann <schoppehaller@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 9. Juni 2008 21:37:09 schrieb Larry Stotler:
> 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....).

not all, my 5212/13 doesn't work with the ath5k also(there exist 3 Versions of 
this one). Maybe we must ship an instruction to blacklist the ath5k in most 
cases. I think because of not working properly yet, it would be better not to 
include ath5k in kernel.

Daniel



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