[Debian-eeepc-devel] still having wpa_supplicant problems with rt2860 on 901

[Daniel Moerner]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Ben Armstrong
<synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> I have heard (on #eeepc @ irc.freenode.net) that 1.7.1.1 is much better
> than 1.8.0.0.  Read this thread:
>
> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=410174
>
> Unfortunately the link to the source no longer works.  However, further
> down in the thread there are links to diffs Adam provides.  You could
> take the .orig.tar.gz from our archives for version 1.8.0.0 and apply
> the 1.7.1.1 vs. 1.8.0.0 diff with patch -R to derive the 1.7.1.1
> source.  Unfortunately it appears that Adam wasn't working from
> pristine upstream source, so there will be a few rejects (manually
> apply these) and some missing files (ignore these).

It looks like the pristine upstream is still hosted at
http://ftp.takhis.net/arch/rt2860/ with a fix for a compilation error.

I've actually stabilized my wireless a lot by purging resolvconf.

-- 
Daniel Moerner <dmoerner at gmail.com>