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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wicd and ath5k drivers
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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?
>
> TIA
> -Robin
>   
I've actually always had trouble with the ath5k driver, but it seems to
come in spells where several restarts will get around the problem. Check
what dmesg has to say.