[ath9k-devel] possitble macbook pro problem

[ath9k-devel] possitble macbook pro problem

[allcock at math.utexas.edu]

Hi all,

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.

Thanks,
Daniel

[ath9k-devel] possitble macbook pro problem

[Christoph Thiel]

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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