[ath9k-devel] possitble macbook pro problem

[Christoph Thiel <ct@kki.org>]

Hi there,

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50:10PM -0600, allcock at math.utexas.edu wrote:

> Thanks everyone for your work on the atheros driver. It will be wonderful
> to have linux back.  Once I get my setup going, I will be delighted if you
> need a guinea pig to test stuff on.  I have a macbook pro 3.1 with the
> atheros AR5418 chip, running kernel "Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel
> 2.6.24-21-generic".  I pulled in the atheros driver from the
> hardy-backports package.  I'm not sure how to see what driver version I
> have.
> 
> I am not sure whether my problem is hardware or not; maybe you can tell me
> if it's similar to any one else's problems.  ath9k is enabled, and the
> wlan0 interface is there; knetworkmanager can scan for networks, and does
> see them.  When I click to connect, it almost always times out after 2
> minutes.  But occasionally it does manage to connect.  For the most part
> I've had encryption turned off, but once it worked with WPA1.  I can't
> identify any rhyme or reason for when it works and when it doesn't.  So
> maybe it's the driver?  Or maybe it's just something else.  I'd appreciate
> any help you could give me.
> 
> I'll be happy to provide any diagnostics you need; I'd include some but
> dont know what would be useful.

Could this be related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 ?


Best,
Christoph
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