Am Montag, 9. Juni 2008 21:37:09 schrieb Larry Stotler:
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kevin Dupuy
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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