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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:53:43
Message-Id: 49bf44f10810150653x4667fb56gae3dd39237efa073@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it? by Adam Carter
1 >> Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability
2 >> problems with
3 >> madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset
4 >> I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then).
5 >
6 > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
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8 I have the same one.
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10 > FWIW I had no stability issues with madwifi-ng 0.9.4 with wpa_supplicant 0.5.7 with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, and IIRC that was with only the old 80211 stuff turned on in the kernel. (??IEEE80211 instead of MAC80211??)
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12 Mine works great except it freezes the whole system when starting ath0
13 in master mode if I have SMP enabled in my kernel:
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15 http://madwifi.org/ticket/1903
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17 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it? Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>