On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:52:14AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 11/08/2009 08:11 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> Have others also been finding it to not work very well? >> (This is on an Asus 1000HE, with an Atheros 928x) >> > > Starting in 2.6.30 some special rfkill + energy savings code was added. > It seems all of this destroyed the reliability of the driver. It has > been reported[1], but no action has been taken on fixing it. The only > way I've been able to use my wireless chip is to force power savings > off. This allows stable connections, but I still have ~50% signal > strength when my laptop is 3 feet from the AP. > > [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13807 Ah, thank you for the explanation. So, basically, it's a known regression in most default installations of any distribution using 2.6.30 and up. Thanks for tracking it down. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: It was exactly you, Will. Every detail. Except for your not being a dominatrix... as far as we know. Willow: Oh, right, me and Oz play Mistress of Pain every night. Xander: Did anyone else just go to a scary visual place? Buffy: Oh, yeah. Giles: (raises glasses) -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
