Re: ath5k on the Acer Aspire One

From: John W. Linville
Date: Fri Aug 15 2008 - 10:04:34 EST


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:51:31AM +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I have just got a One, and have installed a standard distro (not Linpus),
> Mandriva in my case.
>
> Everything works pretty nicely but WiFi. Hardware is:
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
>
> The driver used is ath5k. On load, it logs this:
>
>
> Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k phy0: Support for RF2425 is under development.
> Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)

2425 stuff went in after 2.6.26 was already released. Try linux-2.6.git.

John
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