On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For a long time, the Atheros 5007EG hasn't worked with the ath5k module, > and those of us who had it used MadWifi. > > Today, I upgraded my kernel, and the latest special Madwifi snapshot > wouldn't build. This has happened in the past, last time, someone on > this list had submitted a patch to fix it. > > Just for fun, I decided to try modprobing ath5k and seeing if the card > might be recognized and work. > > It seems that it does. This is running > 2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.x86_64. I modprobed ath5k and saw that I now > had a visible wlan0 card. Did ifconfig up and iwlist scan and it saw > the networks. I then adjusted wpa_supplicant (which I use rather than > NetworkManager--I use fluxbox most of the time and often just boot into > runlevel 3) and Lo! and Behold! it worked. > > I know that at least one other person on this list uses the card. I'd > be interested if other folks with that card (The older EEE PC uses it, > though I believe the 900 series uses a realink of some sort, but it's > fairly popular in lower end laptops) are also having success. Thanks > for any input. > > To the kernel developers, thank you, great work. I am very interested to hear this. As you can see from this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453124, I am having quite a bit of problems with the madwifi driver + network manager... I'll have to give that kernel a try, see if it works with the machine. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
