[ath9k-devel] openSUSE 11.0 (Kernel 2.6.25.16) & ath9k (compat-wireless)

[Sebastian Henrich <shss@gmx.de>]

Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Sebastian Henrich <shss@gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 06:03:50PM -0700, Sebastian Henrich wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I just tried to test ath9k together with my openSUSE 11.0 (Default
>>>> kernel Kernel 2.6.25.16) installation. I downloaded the compat-wireless
>>>> tarball and compiled it. The compilation was ok and the driver loaded
>>>> fine. The problem is that I get no connection. I testet WEP, WPA and WPA2.
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to test/use ath9k in this way at the moment?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You mean compat-wireless-old? So compat-wireless-old should have ath9k
>>> enabled only for 2.6.26 right now. I think you're the first to try it on
>>> a 2.6.25 kernel. It compiled? Can you grep for ATH9K on your /boot/
>>> kernel config file? I doubt OpenSUSE 11.0 is backporting it already...
>>>
>>>   Luis
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Yes, it was compat-wireless-old. It compiled and load perfect. I also
>> get the 2 devices (wlan and ??master). iwlist scan showed me my and my
>> neighbors wlan. But I got no connection.  My hardware is a Lenovo
>> ThinkPad T60 with an AR5418 device. My actual kernel has no ath9k
>> support. I searched the openSUSE buildservice for an compat-wireless
>> build but found only an old one.
>>
>> At the moment I switched back to madwifi but if it helps I continue testing.
>>     
>
> Thanks for reporting this -- so it seems ath9k doesn't work with
> compat-wireless-old on 2.6.25. Unfortunately I don't have time debug
> but I hope other interested developers might. My advise then is to
> upgrade to 2.6.27-rc6 as that has ath9k.
>
>   Luis
>
>   
At the moment I'm writing my bachelor thesis and I don't want to change 
too much of my systems configuration. After this I'll give a newer 
kernel a try or you can tell me where I can start searching the bug.

 Sebastian