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On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:20 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> > I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the |
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> > ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to |
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> > activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface |
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> > correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly |
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> > fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are |
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> > there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching? |
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> As you are no longer |
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> using madwifi, you can't use this driver with wpa_supplicant, use wext |
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> instead |
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Thanks Neil, that's what I needed to know. I thought the issue was something |
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like that but couldn't find the information. |
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Cheers |
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-Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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