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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:16:55
Message-Id: 20090225161652.519cbfe7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers by Robin Atwood
1 On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:20 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
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3 > I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the
4 > ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to
5 > activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface
6 > correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly
7 > fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are
8 > there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching?
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10 Remove net.wlan0 from all runlevels but make sure wicd is in the default
11 runlevel. Wicd will take care o fstarting wlan0. As you are no longer
12 using madwifi, you can't use this driver with wpa_supplicant, use wext
13 instead
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Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net>