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From: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Hawkins <tim.hawkins@mac.com>, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ath5k: problems with wireless network data transfer
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:02:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902062002.04579.rossi.f@inwind.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BAE77E6-F36F-4A54-A67E-FA10FF2FA599@mac.com>

On Thursday 05 February 2009, Tim Hawkins wrote:

> this problem has been around for some time, users of the "aspire one"
> know to turn off the ath5k driver
> and use a branch of the madwifi driver patched with AR242x support,
> otherwise wireless networking is completely unreliable.
>
> The problem appears to be poor support for ar242x in the current in
> the wild version in most popular distros.
>
> The ath5k drive will load and appear to work, but is so flaky that it
> is virtually unusable.

Thanks for reporting the links where are described similar problems. You have 
a AR242x chip, from what I have understood the MAC+PHY part is common to my 
AR5212. So the problem could be related to the MAC management inside ath5k. I 
don't know if it's related by here I can see 5 AP, maybe the medium is too 
crowded.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 23:10 ath5k: problems with wireless network data transfer Fabio Rossi
2009-02-04 23:19 ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-04 23:47   ` Fabio Rossi
     [not found]   ` <5BAE77E6-F36F-4A54-A67E-FA10FF2FA599@mac.com>
2009-02-06 19:02     ` Fabio Rossi [this message]

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