Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards
Jeffrey D. Yuille
jeffy5 at optonline.net
Wed Mar 29 17:04:25 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:31 -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
(snip, snip)
> >>
> >>
> > No, the Madwifi drivers are "Madwifi-old" or just "Madwifi", I
> > believe. Also, when I try to configure the card in Gnome, I come to a
> > place that says, "other wireless cards". In FC5, unlike in FC4, it
> > gives no name of the chipset to indicate that it even recognizes that
> > the card is present. Also, when FC4 was installed, all I had to do
> > was install the kernel modules and drivers and my system would
> > recognize the card.
> I'm really sorry to read this thread. I have given up on ndiswrapper
> with my Linksys WPC54G Cardbus adapter since it freezes the system if I
> have encryption enabled - works without encryption, but that isn't
> adequate. So, I bought a madwifi supported Netgear 511T card on e-bay
> (don't have it yet) expecting it to work correctly from previous posts
> about wireless networking.
>
> It seems to me that wireless networking has regressed tremendously
> between FC4 and FC5. There have been many posts on this list about a
> variety of cards that no longer work and people having many problems
> getting those that do work to do so.
>
> I wonder what kind of bugzilla report to make to get someone's attention
> about this host of problems.
>
> Gerry
>
You know, Gerry, you're right about that. For that reason, I
switched back to FC4 from FC5. Until they can iron out the bugs, I
cannot afford to use FC5 due to the fact that I have so much invested in
the wireless cards I do have. At least FC4 works without a hitch
because it is a more mature OS. But that's only because it has had time
for the bugs to be worked out of them. I am sure that this will be the
case with FC5 over time.
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