Hi, On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Autumn Lansing wrote: > I've wasted most of my Saturday trying to get wireless to work with > the latest kernel on my 64-bit Sid box. I have an Atheros ar5001x > card, and I've been using an older 2.6.22 kernel with madwifi drivers > for the past two years. I'm rather conservative in upgrading my > kernel, precisely because of issues like I've had today, but I found > need for 2.6.30-1.
You know there is FREE driver for Atheros chips in kernel now. I guess yours is one of them. > As madwifi is gone from Debian testing and unstable, I decided to > switch to the ath5K drivers included in the latest kernel. I followed > the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/ath5k, with the > exception that I use wicd to manage my network, and as such I had no > need to amend my interfaces file. > > After rebooting and a little fiddling, the ath5k driver came up, and > wicd found my wireless network. I can't however connect to it. It > tries to connect, usually timing out while getting a valid > authentication, but sometimes it manages to validate the WEP key and > attempts to obtain an IP address but then times out doing that. Have you ajusted configuration to new device names? Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
