Re: ath5k anyone?
* Bill Wohler (wohler@newt.com) wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Has anyone had any luck with the ath5k driver? I've installed
> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. My /etc/network/interfaces file says:
>
[snip]
>
> When I say "ifup ath0", iwconfig reveals that ath0 is associated to my
> AP, ifconfig looks right (as it should with a static config). dmesg
> looks great too:
>
[snip]
>
> However, I can't ping my access point.
>
> Do I need some extra magic in /etc/network/interfaces?
>
> --
> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
>
>
I had a hard time getting wireless working properly with atheros chipsets and
then found the following site, which has a link to a script that has worked
well for me on Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian laptops.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=798485
I have not looked into what this script did differenly to what I was doing,
however it certainly worked well for me.
Only thing to consider is that you will probably have to re-run it each time
you do a kernel upgrade, as the script automates building the drivers from
the madwifi subversion repository against your running kernel.
HTH - Jaime
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Jaime Tarrant
http://www.tarsysco.com jaime.tarrant@tarsysco.com
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