Atheros wireless problems.

Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com
Thu Sep 25 13:38:03 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:59 +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
> On 9/25/08, Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com> wrote:
> > So I obtained a D-Link DWL-AG660 cardbus card, which has a 5213 (I
> > believe) Atheros chipset in it; it's an a/b/g card.  This is to use
> > while the chipset embedded in my laptop isn't supported.  It came today,
> > I installed it tonight and, well, problems.
> >
> > I can get it to associate and, sometimes, even to get an IP address, but
> > as soon as I start trying to actually pass traffic on it, all hell
> > breaks loose.  It starts timing out and the ath_hal starts complaining.
> 
> What version of ath_hal are you using? Try one from CURRENT.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am actually running 8-current:

ath_hal: 0.10.5.10 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, RF2425, RF2417)
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