[ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable

[ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable

[patrick]

hi,

this mailing-list is for developers, sorry to ask a basic question. i 
have a macbookpro running linux (ubuntu). the documentation suggest to 
download madwifi (svn) and install it. it's working, but very unstable. 
my connection is up for 5 minutes and then goes down for 1 minute or so.

is there another driver or solution?
pat

[ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:26 AM, patrick <puredata@11h11.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> this mailing-list is for developers, sorry to ask a basic question. i
> have a macbookpro running linux (ubuntu). the documentation suggest to
> download madwifi (svn) and install it. it's working, but very unstable.
> my connection is up for 5 minutes and then goes down for 1 minute or so.
>
> is there another driver or solution?

You sort of got the wrong list. This is ath9k-devel, not
madwifi-devel. Anyway abandon MadWifi and use ath9k, the open driver:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k

  Luis

[ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable

[patrick]

hi,

i've downloaded 
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 
and compile it. then make install and finally make unload (removing 
madwifi) and make load (loading many wireless driver).

but then, no more wireless.

my network controller is:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418 
802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

i have this kernel:
Linux pat-laptop 2.6.24-19-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Aug 21 02:08:03 UTC 
2008 i686 GNU/Linux

what should i do to make it working?
pat

[ath9k-devel] macbookpro unstable

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14 AM, patrick <puredata@11h11.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've downloaded
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> and compile it. then make install and finally make unload (removing
> madwifi) and make load (loading many wireless driver).
>
> but then, no more wireless.
>
> my network controller is:
> 0b:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5418
> 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>
> i have this kernel:
> Linux pat-laptop 2.6.24-19-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Aug 21 02:08:03 UTC
> 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> what should i do to make it working?

compat-wireless doesn't have ath9k yet. I stopped letting the
automatic script pick up updates from wireless-testing as David Miller
introduced some difficult changes to backport on the struct
net_device, this is the new TX multiqueue support. You can get ath9k
working with compat-wireless but you need to add it yourself. I will
eventually just add it and fork out a release of compat-wireless with
it and start a-new with compat-wireless fresh for kernels >= 2.6.27.

If you'd like to help test ath9k for now I can recommend to get
wireless-testing or use the rc release of 2.6.27.

  Luis