From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:16:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225161652.519cbfe7@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902251901.20580.robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:20 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I have just upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.2.28-r2 and have enabled the
> ath5k drivers for its Aetheros PC wireless card. Using the scripts to
> activate net.wlan0 works fine and the wicd client can see the interface
> correctly. But when I try to activate wlan0 with wicd it repeatedly
> fails. I still have madwifi selected as the wpa-supplicant driver. Are
> there any hints on tuning this, I can't find any by searching?
Remove net.wlan0 from all runlevels but make sure wicd is in the default
runlevel. Wicd will take care o fstarting wlan0. As you are no longer
using madwifi, you can't use this driver with wpa_supplicant, use wext
instead
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 12:01 [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers Robin Atwood
2009-02-25 13:56 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-25 15:01 ` Robin Atwood
2009-02-25 15:28 ` Saphirus Sage
2009-02-25 15:45 ` Robin Atwood
2009-02-25 16:16 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-02-25 16:57 ` Robin Atwood
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