It's probably like how speakers near a cell phone with an incoming call make noise. Your unshielded headphone wires (and leads in the laptop) are little antennas.
Just for fun, try decreasing the tx power, and see if that reduces the noise. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:43 PM, David Staer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I recently compiled a 2.6.26 kernel for my laptop and discovered that my > "AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor [168C:13]" (Cardbus) > works quite nicely under the driver provided with the kernel. However, > whenever I have the sound volume up loud or my headphones jacked in, and the > wireless card is busy, I can hear a lot of static that seems to me directly > corresponding to the traffic through the card. > > If anybody would like a recording of this, I would be happy to attach it. > > Does anyone else have this issue? Would anyone know what's going on and/or > how to fix it? > > Regards > David Staer > > _______________________________________________ > ath5k-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users > _______________________________________________ ath5k-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-users
