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On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 07:28, David C. Rankin wrote:
On my older Toshiba P35A (i586) laptop with Atheros AR5212/AR5213, I switched from using the madwifi ath_pci.ko to drive to wireless card and just went to the kernel supplied ath5k.ko module [snip]
The problem I have is that wlan0 just drops the connection when it is left idling. I have never heard or experienced this before. I've left this box running for weeks with the madwifi driver and never a drop. With ath5k, it's almost like every hour of inactivity causes the ath5k connection to 'go to sleep' for lack of better words.
Simple fix... bump up to the 2.6.34 kernel from factory. There are other workaround such as setting driver options via CLI, but I never had much success with it. Bumping up to the 2.6.34 kernel fixed all the issues I've had with ath5k, and now it works perfectly... connects within 2 or 3 seconds after waking from suspend to ram... is connected pretty much when the desktop loads on boot.... it just works, and works very well all the time. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org