On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:51:25PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:45:06PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.29-2-686
> > Version: 2.6.29-5
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Through kernel 2.6.26, I was able to use my wireless card via the
> > madwifi driver "ath-pci". Unfortunately, madwifi was recently removed
> > from Debian, so I'm stuck with only the ath5k driver in the kernel.
> > Problem is, it just doesn't work for me. Well, every once in a while
> > and under conditions I can't figure out, it works 100% perfectly. But
> > most of the time it behaves as if it's not actually connected to my
> > wireless network (it tries to send DHCP packets and doesn't see a
> > response -- I don't have an easy way of checking whether it's failing
> > to send packets or whether it's not seeing the replies).
>
> For Lenny I'd recommend to stay with the madwifi driver (which was
> only removed from unstable). If the error persists with 2.6.30
> from unstable, please file a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org and
> send the bugnumber to this bug. This needs to be fixed upstream,
> the Debian kernel doesn't carry ath5k patches.
Daniel, did you report this upstream?
Cheers,
Moritz
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