[ltp] atheros + suse 10.1 constant disconnect

[Jenni Patrick]

Vijay Garla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have madwifi installed!  I've tried the rpms for suse, and building it 
> myself: last stable build, and several builds from recent snapshots.  
> Nothing works: I get disconnected atleast every 5 minutes.  This didn't 
> happen with the older version of madwifi that was distributed with suse 
> 9.3.
> 
> I've also put madwifi into full debug mode to see what the problem could 
> be - when I get disconnected, there is no message from madwifi in 
> /var/log/messages: i'm not sure if there's something going on in 
> madwifi, or if suse 10.1 is just crap.
> 
> I've also tried with and without network manager (i.e. via ifup).  No 
> luck (atleast network manager notices that I've been disconnected, and 
> reconnects).
> 
> Any advice/suggestions?  Does anybody else have suse 10.1 on a t43(p) ?
> 
> - vijay
> 

Not a T43, but I have madwifi on a G41. After atheros was dumped from 
the distribution, I had to get the sources.  I had some initial 
problems, but it seems very stable now. I have svn version 1747 last 
updated 28-09-2006.
URL: http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk
Repository Root: http://svn.madwifi.org
Repository UUID: 0192ed92-7a03-0410-a25b-9323aeb14dbd
Revision: 1747

Peter

> Donald B. Altman wrote:
> 
>> ** Reply to message from Vijay Garla <vngarla@gmx.net> on Fri, 13 Oct 
>> 2006 20:42:02 +0200
>>
>> Hi Vijay,
>>
>> This comes from:
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7527984757.html
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Don A
>>
>>
>> Atheros wireless network drivers
>>
>> The original release of SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS did not contain drivers 
>> for Atheros-based wireless network cards. There is now a package 
>> available, however. Go to the Software Manager in YaST, then search 
>> for this term: madwifi
>>
>> In the right pane, most people will need to select these two packages:
>>
>>     * madwifi
>>     * madwifi-kmp-default
>>
>> If you have a multi-CPU, Hyper-Threaded, or dual-core system, select 
>> the SMP packages as well. If you're using Xen and need to have Atheros 
>> support in your virtual machines, select the Xen-related madwifi 
>> drivers. After you have installed these packages, you can load the 
>> ath_pci module by hand or just restart the computer to activate your 
>> wireless network.
>>
>>   
> 
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