[ltp] t61 with atheros wifi - prefered driver (madwifi - ath5k) and wifi led

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:49:19 +0200


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 18:12:33 +0200, Michael Karcher wrote:

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> I don't have a ThinkPad here, but a FSC laptop. For me ath5k never
> worked on the PCI Express onboard chips, whereas on a PC Card (via PCI)
> it works for my dad. Seems like ath5k in 2.6.26-rc9 (I know 2.6.26 is
> out!) does not yet fully support PCIe, especially as no interrupts get
> generated, so I stay at madwifi.

I got the version in 2.6.25 to work for at least a minute on this
hardware: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications
Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)

So the assumption that it doesn't work with PCIe at all is not true.

Regards,
Tino