Custom F8 kernal and ath5k

[John Summerfield]

Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> If madwifi isn't working then ath5k isn't going to work either.
>> madwifi supports more hardware than ath5k.
> 
> I've got a similar problem as the original post. I wonder how I make sure the 
> madwifi driver is used instead of the ath5k driver.
> 
> If the madwifi driver supports more hardware wouldn't it make sense to not use 
> the ath5k driver at all ?

Future development is with ath5k; I surmise it's more likely to work 
than madwifi for some (probably newer) devices. Fedora aims to provide 
the latest in open source; madwifi isn't all open source, and ath5k is 
the latest.



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