Re: Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-18 Thread Kevin Mitchell
When you run dhclient without arguments, it tries to get an ip address on any of the interfaces listed with /sbin/ifconfig minus the lo interface. If you take a look at that output with the ath9k module loaded, you'll see a wmaster0 interface. My understanding is that this is a kind of abstraction

Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-18 Thread Kevin Mitchell
Oh, you're right, I guess I didn't notice that before. In any case, it doesn't appear to cause any problems for me either. It's just an annoying error message. Kevin On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:06:10 -0700 Kevin Mitchell [EMAIL

Re: Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-10 Thread Kevin Mitchell
I would suggest reporting this to the ath9k-devel list: https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel especially if it is reproducible. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-08 Thread Kevin Mitchell
The ath9k in 2.6.27-rc5 is working famously for me on my Thinkpad T60 AR5418. I'm even creeping past 11g speeds (25MB/s on a good day). Here are instructions for compiling the kernel in Debian: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_the_development_version_of_atk9k. There is also someone on

Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418

2008-09-08 Thread Kevin Mitchell
and switch that around, things might work. For example, see this bug on tp_ctrl: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2041469group_id=1212atid=101212 Kevin On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Mitchell a écrit : The ath9k in 2.6.27-rc5

Re: Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Mitchell
I've been using ath9k in a 2.6.27-rc3 testing kernel and it works great! The sureest bet would be to download and compile that kernel which I've documented here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_install_the_development_version_of_atk9k. Alternatively, there is a thread in Ubuntu forums where a