Here's my experience so far in relation with this bug, on a HP DV5-1124CA laptop, with an Atheros AR928X card:
1. Out of the box, the ath9k driver provided by Jaunty and Karmic give really unstable and weak connections. In my case, installing the linux- backports-wireless-modules-karmic improves things dramatically (it gives me a quite stable and strong connection), while there are still the issue described at point 2. 2. The remaining greatest issue is caused by what I understand to be the periodic scanning operations of network-manager, which causes some connections interruptions/hangs . See these reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/373680 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/414560 I have managed to circumvent this issue, by opting for one or the other following solution: a) using wicd instead of network-manager b) using ndiswrapper, instead of the ath9k module, with the latest windows XP driver available on this page (in my case : http://www.atheros.cz/ -- Wireless connection with ath9k is very unstable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333730 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
