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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