ath5k access point in Fedora 12

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 23:30:05 UTC 2009


Are you referring to the power mgmt bug in ath9k ?  If so, yes, that bug sucks.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM, jaivuk <jaivuk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> To be honest I was so upset with permanent problems and unstability of ath5k
> driver in AP mode that I purchased ath9k card...
> It is much more stable but currently there is a bug in F12 kernel, so I have
> to use F11 kernel.
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:01 PM, James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> has anyone had any joy getting an atheros card working in Master mode in
>> Fedora 12. All the options in the networking and network-script directories
>> say Mode=Master but it won't start. The error on bringing wlan0 up is;
>> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>>
>> Failing this, is there an easy way to install madwifi, as I had trouble
>> finding a repository with the atheros drivers in.
>>
>> People are also talking about compat-wireless, but a yum search reveals
>> nothing in the repositories. Also is there a way of finding out in fedora
>> what options were used to compile the kernel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
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