Re: Bugs on aspire one A150

From: Bob Copeland
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 11:51:22 EST


On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ** 2 - wireless: not to mention the fact that ath5k wasn't installed by
> default in ubuntu...
> wireless more or less works, but kernel log is full of backtraces.

As you've seen, these should at least be gone now...

> Was able to connect to my WPA2 access point.
> Sometimes wireless fails completely, especially after suspend to ram.

Did you get noise calibration failures in dmesg at this point? Felix posted
a patch recently that handles them better.

> Advanced features like monitor/injection work, but when I changed the card's
> mac address it stopped working.
> I also noticed that if I then start airodump, then wireless works with new
> mac.

> ** 4 - wireless led doesn't work.
> ath5k devs, can you fix this?

Currently all the LED code we have in there is for setting a particular gpio
for particular laptops (and they differ between models). We only have quirks
for IBM and HP, none for Acer. Also, the legacy-hal seems to have a different
strategy for 2425 chips. I can try to hack up some code for you to test.

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