Bug#665881: [wheezy] module ath5k is blocking wlan-card

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi Ben, hi Jonathan!

After several tries and 5 hours of compiling, I am sad, to tell you, the 
patch, Ben sent me, is not working.

Just before you take work into a new patch, let me first try kernel-3.4, which 
might be also possible to be released into next debian stable. Ben told so.

I tested 3.1, 3.2, 3,5 and 3.6, but NOT 3.4! So maybe 3.4 might work as 
wished, then no other action has to be done - just release debian with 3.4!

However, if kernel-3.2 shall be in next release, I am willing to test it for 
you. Maybe it will be easier, if you send me a precompiled module, which I 
then will test here.

Please let me explain: I am not too lazy to compile, but my system is not good 
prepared for it. The main problem is, my /usr partition is too small. It has 
only 20G, so kernel building breaks, with "no space left on device".

I built the kernel now on my older 64-bit-machine, which has only 512 MB RAM 
and is rather slow. 

It is not possible for me, to increase /usr (i.e. with gparted) without data 
loss, for it is ecrypted with luks.

This just a little bit of information, why I am not so fast with the kernel 
building. All machines I am using (my 64-bit notebook, the 64-bit desktop-pc, 
my netbook and so on) are mostly permanently needed for my work, so they 
should not be killed somehow. I am happy, when they are working as wished!

However, as I said, I am happy, when I can help, but results may be last a 
little longer as expected due to my "weired" environment.

Thanks for your patience and best regards

Hans