[ltp] T60p And Atheros AR5418 with ndiswrapper

[Michael Gaber]

Bill Moseley schrieb:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:47:43AM +0200, Michael Gaber wrote:
>> well
>> why exactly would one want to use ndiswrapper instead of ath5k/madwifi?
> 
> Rhetorical question?
> 
> I have notes from Gutsy where I had to install madwifi from svn.
> So the ndiswrapper approach was much faster.

ok might be. i think I'm a bit spoiled by gentoo, which has newer 
versions, and .25 with ath5k in the kernel is not a problem to get.


> 
> I'm also at a location once a week where my wireless won't connect
> to the access point, but people running Windows connect fine.  So,
> thought I'd try the Windows driver.
> 
> Oddly, when trying to setup wireless yesterday I was having
> authentication problems with my Netgear AP.  I reset the security on
> the AP to "WPA-PSK & WPA2-PSK" after disabling all security (while
> testing) and my T60p connects w/o any problem but my Apple iBook no
> longer will connect.
> 
> There's always something that doesn't quite work...
> 
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