[ltp] T61 Atheros wireless LED

[Robert T. West ("Tim")]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Micha wrote:
>> There is also a ath5k driver both in the kernel and compatwireless but although
>> it recognises my card it fails to actually communicate. I've been told not long
>> ago on this list that it's because the card is pci-e and there is an issue with
>> the interrupts at the moment.
>
> I have seen a patch for that already in the linux-wireless ML, it just
> disables MSI for now on all ath5k and ath9k cards, and that's enough to fix
> the interrupt issues.  Which doesn't mean everything will work, but at least
> it will have a non-zero chance to :-)
>
> It might even be on the newest wireless-compat already, but you can look at
> the linux-wireless archives for ath5k: emails and check.
>

That's of great interest. I haven't had much luck running Ubuntu Hardy
on a T60p. Currently using ndiswrapper (probably because I don't know
better) to get the Atheros pci-e wireless to work at all, and, as of
my last bout with it, it works with no encryption or WEP, but will
only handshake with WPA if it's within a few feet of the router, and
never reliably. I find that... strange.