Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3625 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 09:57 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx> 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.

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