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Re: ath5k anyone?



* David Goodenough (david.goodenough@btconnect.com) wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2008, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> > Jaime Tarrant wrote:
> > > * 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
> > > --
> > >  Jaime Tarrant
> > >  http://www.tarsysco.com    jaime.tarrant@tarsysco.com
> >
> > I guess that will work as works module-assistant. In my college I setted
> > up hundreds of this cards with module-assistant and madwifi-source, just:
> >
> > # apt-get install madwifi-source module-assistant
> > # m-a prepare
> > # m-a update
> > # m-a a-i madwifi
> >
> > Then I just made # iwconfig ath0 essid ESSID; dhclient ath0 and it was
> > done, I was surfing with wireless.
> >
> > Regards.
> > --
> > Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118
> > http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve
> > `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es
> 
> That is the way that I install madwifi, BUT none of this answers the
> original question.  Ath5k is the new binary firmware free driver for
> the Atheros wireless cards, and it is that he wants to use.
> 
> I have not tried the ath5k driver yet, but I too would be very interested
> to hear from anyone who has made it work.
> 
> David
> 

I am glad some people have had success with module-assistant and the like -
maybe I just have dramas as I am running unstable, however the OP seems to be
as well as he is running kernel 2.6.25.2-2, which is the same as me. 

Anyway, the ubuntuforums link that I referenced provides a script that
installs the ath5k version driver. So far, I have not had a single problem. I
do know that a lot of people do seem to be having problems with their atheros
chipsets however (mostly the earlier ath_pci version) as there are many 
comments on tickets at madwifi.org (ref: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1562 for 
example). 

Atleast in my experience, the module assistant approach didn't work as I was
forever plagued by an 'unable to reset hardware' issue. 

--
 Jaime Tarrant
 http://www.tarsysco.com    jaime.tarrant@tarsysco.com


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