I just upgraded my system to Suse 11.1, and it installed the ath5k driver. I started having trouble with network access, and found that the response time to the wireless router in my house was lousy: glenn@DepotRd:~> ping 192.168.2.1 PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1233 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1901 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1550 ms So I pulled the madwifi-0.9.4-1.src.rpm, and re-configured to use the ath_pci driver. The results were much better: glenn@DepotRd:~> ping 192.168.2.1 PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.493 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.485 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.501 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.518 ms The card I have is the Netgear WG311T, which reports with PCI ID 0x168c:0x0013, and in the log as "Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)". I'd be happy to try to help figure out why the response time is so bad with the ath5k driver, but I'm completely new to this code set. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
