ath5k won't connect -- sometimes

[Jim]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>   
>> Yesterday I ran a Live CD of F9 (i386 KDE version) on a Toshiba laptop.
>> I found it could see my Wifi network but somewhat erratically, i.e. the
>> connection would bounce up and down every few minutes. The access point
>> is about 6 feet away so it's not a signal issue (and my phone connects
>> with no problem so the AP is OK as well).
>>
>> I then went ahead and installed F9 on the hard disk, plugged in an
>> Ethernet cable and updated everything via yum. Now the Wifi doesn't work
>> at all. I even installed the latest NetworkManager from
>> updates-testing-newkey but no joy, even after rebooting.
>>
>> All I can see in dmesg is a few lines saying:
>>
>>         ath5k_pci 0000:04:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
>>         ath5k: pky0: Atheros AR2424 chip found (MAC: 0xaO, PHY: 0x61)
>>         ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2422MHz)
>>         ath5k: pky0: noise floor calibration timeout (2437MHz)
>>         
>> As regards ifconfig, there are a couple of new interfaces: wlan0 and
>> wmaster0, both marked as UP but with no IP addresses.
>>
>> wpa_supplicant is running, dhclient is not.
>>
>> The physical Wifi switch is on and the light is lit.
>>
>> "iwlist wlan0 scanning" gives no results.
>>     
>
> Just to add that I do know about Madwifi, the non-free driver available
> from Livna. I've installed it before on pre-F9 systems and have usually
> managed to get it working after a fair amount of agony. I was just
> hoping not to have to go that route with F9 as it is claimed to have
> Atheros support now.
>
> In any case, I suspect the problem isn't in the actual driver itself but
> in some interaction with NM.
>
> poc
>
>   


I have the same chipset in a EEEpc 702 and I found out that the 2.6.25 
kernel doesn't  help, I went into the Rawhide repo
on Fedora 9 and got the 2.6.27-fc10 kernel and installed the 2.6.27-fc10 
in fc9 and now the wireless card works perfect.
The moral of this story is that the 2.6.27 kernel has the drivers for 
this chipset.