On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Vladimir Rusinov <vladi...@greenmice.info> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 >> to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed is >> scaled down. I am talking about trying to ssh into my laptop taking >> literally MINUTES to respond when it is running at 800MHz but being >> instant when it is running at 2000MHz. If I am emerging or doing >> anything to run the CPU, the wifi speed is fine. When I am >> interactively using the laptop it's not as much of an issue because >> the laptop itself is perfectly normal in its responsiveness, but the >> wifi practically dies when the CPU slows down. I tried with cpudyn and >> without (using kernel ondemand governor). >> >> Is anyone else using ath5k on a laptop and having this problem? I >> don't know if it is the wifi driver, the kernel, or something else. I >> did about 3 months worth of updates all at once, so that makes it a >> nice big mess for isolating the cause. :) > > Hi. > > I'm using ath5k and kernel conservative governor and it everything work ok > for me. Wireless is not very fast, but it seems it is hardware problem. > > gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r1
Okay, thanks for the info. My chipset is AR5414 and gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1. When I'm downloading and change governor to performance I can see immediate wifi speed increase from 2KiB/s to more than 1000KiB/s. But, even then, performance is bad and unreliable compared to mafwifi-ng. I guess I should switch back. Maybe I'll ask ath5k-users list first (but it seems dead).
