[Debian-eeepc-devel] eee 900 wifi problems

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Federico Castagnini, Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:20:48AM -0200 |=-
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Sergio Blanco <crimsomshadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem has come some days ago. I read the new kernel was 
> > ready so I
> > could update. When I did so, wifi stopped working, no matter what I did.
> > Then I tried a reinstall and got wifi to work ensuring pciehp was being
> > loaded. But one day later it just stopped working again. Tonight I did the
> > third reinstall and I can´t get wifi to work, no matter what I do. I see the
> > ath0 interface and can bring it up and down, but I can´t scan for APs. I
> > already tried uninstalling the madwifi binaries and compiling the sources,
> > but it remains the same.
> 
> i am thinking to try the ath5k driver:
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/UseLastAtherosModule, but
> dont know if it would work.

Or, blacklist ath5k so that it doesn't interfere with the madwifi one.  
(don't forget to un-blacklist it when you decide to repplace madwifi 
with ath5k).

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