Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers

[Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>]

On Wednesday 25 Feb 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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?
>
> As you are no longer
> using madwifi, you can't use this driver with wpa_supplicant, use wext
> instead

Thanks Neil, that's what I needed to know. I thought the issue was something 
like that but couldn't find the information. 

Cheers
-Robin
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