Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

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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