On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:57 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Mike McMullin
wrote: Can you expand that please, 11.0 broke my wireless, and i think it's the atheros driver at primary fault?
There is a new atheros driver from the madwifi project that's fully open source and can now be included in the kernel(it's called ath5k). It's based on a bsd version, but it's still in the alpha stages. It seems to only work with the 5xxx series chipsets. While it worked with my netgear card ok for browsing, I couldn't do any scp transfers because it would drop the packets. I ended up just compiling the old ath_pci module and now it works fine. There is also a madwifi repository, but I never could get it to work before, and it's just as easy for me to compile it anyway.
That the ticket, the wireless worked perfectly under the ath_pci, can i get an URL for the source that you used?
YaST also has an issue with selecting the ath5k driver for unsupported chipsets. My Dlink card uses the 2413 chip, and ath5k doesn't support it. However, YaST selected the ath5k module and said it was configured. I'm guessing they never resolved that issue before 11.0 was fully released....
Yeah, and the mad-wifi update this week didn't help at all. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org