From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Thiel Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:42:50 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] possitble macbook pro problem In-Reply-To: <43537.66.90.205.59.1227678610.squirrel@www.ma.utexas.edu> References: <43537.66.90.205.59.1227678610.squirrel@www.ma.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <20081126084250.GA6172@kki.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.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 -- Christoph Thiel Ressort IT Infrastruktur 2008/09 | Rotaract Deutschland Komitee T: +49 30 76216704 M: +49 160 3435634 E: christoph.thiel at rotaract.de W: www.rotaract.de/rdk Brunnenstrasse 42 | 10115 Berlin | Germany