Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG

[Steven I Usdansky]

--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
> Subject: Latest kernel, ath5k and Atheros5007EG
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 4:45 PM
> For a long time, the Atheros 5007EG hasn't worked with
> the ath5k module,
> and those of us who had it used MadWifi.
> 
> Today, I upgraded my kernel, and the latest special Madwifi
> snapshot
> wouldn't build.  This has happened in the past, last
> time, someone on
> this list had submitted a patch to fix it. 
> 
> Just for fun, I decided to try modprobing ath5k and seeing
> if the card
> might be recognized and work.  
> 
> It seems that it does.  This is running
> 2.6.27-0.244.rc2.git1.fc10.x86_64. I modprobed ath5k and
> saw that I now
> had a visible wlan0 card.  Did ifconfig up and iwlist scan
> and it saw
> the networks. I then adjusted wpa_supplicant (which I use
> rather than
> NetworkManager--I use fluxbox most of the time and often
> just boot into
> runlevel 3) and Lo! and Behold! it worked. 
> 
> I know that at least one other person on this list uses the
> card.  I'd
> be interested if other folks with that card (The older EEE
> PC uses it,
> though I believe the 900 series uses a realink of some
> sort, but it's
> fairly popular in lower end laptops) are also having
> success.  Thanks
> for any input.  
> 
> To the kernel developers, thank you, great work.  
> -- 
> Scott Robbins
Works  with my cheap Atheros-based wireless card [Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)] too!