Quoting Jaco Kroon <jaco@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi,
I've got a Toshiba Satellite 1i4 (P200 derivative) laptop with the
following wireless card:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
That's not sufficient to identify your card. ath5k should print more
detailed information to the kernel log, which is shown by the dmesg
command. If it's AR5006 (MAC revision less than 14.2), the card
should work with MSI turned off. Just add "pci=nomsi" to the kernel
command line in the bootloader. Alternatively, disable CONFIG_PCI_MSI
in .config and recompile the kernel.
If it's AR5007, the experimental code is being tested now:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mickflemm/
Look for the latest compat-wireless. Some people report build
problems due to unrelated code in compat-wireless. It's a known
problem, which has nothing to do with the driver itself.
What I would like to know is how I can assist? I've got a little bit
of kernel coding experience and my C is at least reasonable. I don't
have an abundance of time available but can probably nip in a couple of
hours worth of work on this.
I suggest that you subscribe to ath5k-devel, read the mailing list and
try dealing with the problems that are reported to the list. You may
also want to see how to adapt madwifi tracing infrastructure to the
new mmiotrace code due to appear in Linux 2.6.27.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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