[Debian-eeepc-devel] [RFC] wireless.sh: remove special treatment for Atheros

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Wed Aug 12 14:39:31 UTC 2009


-=| Alan Jenkins, Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:43:47PM +0100 |=-
> I'd like to request removal of the special treatment for Atheros
> (v.s. Ralink) wireless.  I don't believe it is necessary, and it
> confused me while trying to debug the wireless toggle.

I am quite happy with your change, as well as the reasons behind it. 
I am a ralink user, though, so I'd like some comments from people with 
atheros cards. Does this change break things for you?

> The module loading seems pretty bogus.  If you have to remove
> modules, it's a kernel bug; I don't know of any such bug in ath5k.

Perhaps we were working around some bugs that are no longer present. 
Lenny kernels maybe?

-- 
dam
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