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LoSeR_5150
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 Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:49 am Post subject: Ath5k vs madwifi |
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I have a Atheros wireless card and recently tried to migrate to the in-kernel ath5k driver. It works well giving slightly better link quality and slightly higher transfer rates. However upon resuming from suspend my wireless will not work and trying to restart it will sometimes result in a working connection; Though it usually just connects and disconnects repeatedly and/or hardlocks the machine. Is anyone else experiencing this ? I have went back to using the madwifi driver for now but would like to be able to use the in kernel driver.
relevant lspci output:
| Code: | 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Wistron NeWeb Corp. CM9 Wireless a/b/g MiniPCI Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 17
Memory at d2200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ath_pci
Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k |
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d2_racing
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Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:12 am Post subject: |
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Hi, about your problem, did you kill wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd ?
I have a similar problem with my iwl3945.
In fact, when I get stuck, I run this :
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# rmmod iwl3945
# killall wpa_supplicant
# killall dhcpcd
# modprobe iwl3945
# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
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LoSeR_5150
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d2_racing: I don't use dhcpcd but I haven't tried killing wpa_supplicant before restarting net.wlan0 but I will give that a try and see if it is any better. I really want to get the ath5k working reliably as it bonds to my wireless in VMware workstation so I can use bridged networking vs NAT. For whatever reason VMWare always bitches about net.ath0 not being a valid Ethernet device or something along those lines when I try to use the madwifi driver vs ath5k. I'm not sure if its because madwifi is based on the old HAL architecture and the new ath5k is based on OpenHAL, but it it doesnt work and is annoying. Anyways I'll try to kill wpa_supplicant before restarting the wireless interface and report back.
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Opteron 1356@2.4Ghz
6GB DDR2 800Mhz
128MB Quadro NVS 210S
640GB Western Digital HD
*Gentoo-x86_64-2.6.30-r1
Opteron175@2.2GHz
2GB DDR 400MHz
256MB Quadro 1400 Go
(2) 80GB Segate HDs: RAID0
*Gentoo-x86_64-2.6.30-r1 |
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