Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards

[Brian Truter]

On 3/29/06, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> 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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Madwifi-old and madwifi-ng both work fine for me on FC5, but not without
some issues. The interface is not brought up automatically on boot anymore.
I have checked my old configuration, uninstalled and re-installed, nothing
seems to get it working again. NetworkManager doesnt seem to work anymore,
the only way I can bring the interface up anymore is thru the command line,
so i had to resort to shell scripts.

Something in FC5 has definately changed as far as wireless goes, and not for
the better.
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