What does kernel 2.6.27 bring for Artheros AR5007 users?

[Jim]

Jim wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> The ath_pci driver is very falky on a notebook on which I installed
>>>>>> Fedora + Livna. I was expecting that ath5k in 2.6.27 would bring
>>>>>> AR5007 support, but I saw nothing about it here:
>>>>>> http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_27
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How are other Fedora dealing with the AR5007 wifi card?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           
>>>>> I'm using a eeepc with the AR5007EG wifi and kernels-2.6.27 in 
>>>>> FC10 work
>>>>> great.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> What did you use before 2.6.27?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> The madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz driver, but I'm sure it's changed 
>>> to a
>>> different number by now.
>>> While I was using FC9 , I went to Redhat Rawhide and got a 
>>> Kernel-2.6.27 and
>>> installed on FC9 and it worked
>>> without any problems.
>>> I'm using kernel-2.6.27-0.398.rc9.fc10.i686, If you should choose to 
>>> go that
>>> way, be sure you get the kernel-devel, kernel-headers,  from 
>>> rawhide, just
>>> in case you should have to compile anything.
>>> I switch to FC10-test because they have a lot of improvements to KDE.
>>> The 2.6.27 kernels have fixes for most or all Atheros chipsets, it also
>>> fixed my Webcam
>>> So I have got a  eeePC 702, with all hardware working in FC10.
>>> Send me your Email and I will attach an forward  the
>>> madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz driver to you. I still have it on my PC.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> No need for the attachment, I have that madwifi via Livna (RPM)  and
>> its 'ok' but is very flaky. It either doesn't resume after suspend, or
>> stalls the machine on suspend. And randomly doesn't work on some
>> boots.
>>
>> I was going to pull in .27 from rawhide, but I saw it was pulling in
>> some packages for update which I was not familiar with so I aborted
>> that process. May have to give it a try again.
>>
>>
>>   
> Do you use Yumex ?
> Yumex will let you select only the packages you want.
> The only packages that the kernel should want to pull are  
> kernel-devel, kernel-headers, kernel-firmware, kernel-oops .
> Here is a mirror you can download the packages you want, one at a time.
>
> ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/ 
>
Arthur if you have problems with running that URL, do a right click on 
URL and "Save Link Target" and paste it in the URL box on your Web 
browser, I tried to click on link on FC8-Thunderbird and it wouldn't run 
because it was a "ftp" site.