On Thursday 05 February 2009, Tim Hawkins wrote: > this problem has been around for some time, users of the "aspire one" > know to turn off the ath5k driver > and use a branch of the madwifi driver patched with AR242x support, > otherwise wireless networking is completely unreliable. > > The problem appears to be poor support for ar242x in the current in > the wild version in most popular distros. > > The ath5k drive will load and appear to work, but is so flaky that it > is virtually unusable. Thanks for reporting the links where are described similar problems. You have a AR242x chip, from what I have understood the MAC+PHY part is common to my AR5212. So the problem could be related to the MAC management inside ath5k. I don't know if it's related by here I can see 5 AP, maybe the medium is too crowded. -- 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
