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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f0811140236n6f062841k35a18bb7b7ed2cc9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491C80D1.1030707@gmail.com>

2008/11/13 Simon <turner25@gmail.com>:
>> Airodump-ng shows an empty table.

> I discussed some time ago with some folks at madwifi and... the answer was
> basically that they need help.  The drivers are far from being alright,
> there are obvious issues that still needs to be addressed... the
> creation/destruction of interface wasn't working very well (this is like 3
> months ago).

Still the case with mine.  Development of madwifi-ng has now
slowed/stopped I believe.

> The conclusion was to move on to ath5k, the newer drivers for atheros
> wireless cards, I was told madwifi was to be obsolete soon.  Also, kernel
> 2.6.27 (iirc) includes ath5k.

Yes, I've been thinking that I should now install the athk5, but I
wasn't sure if this is would perform better or worse than the
madwifi-ng drivers.  It seems like I should give it a spin.

Thanks!
-- 
Regards,
Mick



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 11:03 [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng Mick
2008-11-07 12:50 ` Fred Elno
2008-11-07 13:15   ` Mick
2008-11-13 19:32     ` Simon
2008-11-14 10:36       ` Mick [this message]
2008-11-14 10:58       ` Stroller
2008-11-16 15:14         ` Simon

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