From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0w2W-0000TK-DE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6FF7E01EF; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FDFE01EF for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so1577036wff.10 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:36:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8RD45lja3pKZ21m55C1LarAnPYXNyg1++UftFCQ+xY8=; b=ZE1RC7WNinI1FrHv0Oyuw8EGWun7IsWdXzfXNEzGGSSN56NNIz0MZCDu+18gLHhae8 9mD/feEHIu7sjosmtOl/P5NbnQCwyLlJAOizREK+t0c+9a8Cmb4gEbO3t788K6y3WhlX ra/jMuvpENp0Iq30WW0EEqIvsgpSTTVcPs0Mg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Ab/RSI65+nxQLOCSwTB37DHziV65cMQHq9Q1g2aA8oJnzQX1sxEFTY8FobBCtx8km2 VIl2zfmcV/NRiyMpNn2z41dHjlapn6lV9jBqMLFDo5nQXOsQhHUJW8R4Wtsq7QbvYaE4 FlLJup4gtUOljnbhKtnFmIJqjNclUXvZXgWOs= Received: by 10.142.192.11 with SMTP id p11mr344204wff.88.1226658994588; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.60.10 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:36:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <358eca8f0811140236n6f062841k35a18bb7b7ed2cc9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:34 +0000 From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng In-Reply-To: <491C80D1.1030707@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <358eca8f0811070303s2afd8361p3fb182e3f6c4ca3c@mail.gmail.com> <358eca8f0811070515x75c78e5bwbb2f1b174b43cfa8@mail.gmail.com> <491C80D1.1030707@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 36dd1624-8cdb-42d1-86c4-571c2ceea3a1 X-Archives-Hash: 647d638d6f60137fd9b6426ac6fb6d1b 2008/11/13 Simon : >> 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