On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman < paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com <paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 > to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed is > scaled down. I am talking about trying to ssh into my laptop taking > literally MINUTES to respond when it is running at 800MHz but being > instant when it is running at 2000MHz. If I am emerging or doing > anything to run the CPU, the wifi speed is fine. When I am > interactively using the laptop it's not as much of an issue because > the laptop itself is perfectly normal in its responsiveness, but the > wifi practically dies when the CPU slows down. I tried with cpudyn and > without (using kernel ondemand governor). > > Is anyone else using ath5k on a laptop and having this problem? I > don't know if it is the wifi driver, the kernel, or something else. I > did about 3 months worth of updates all at once, so that makes it a > nice big mess for isolating the cause. :) > Hi. I'm using ath5k and kernel conservative governor and it everything work ok for me. Wireless is not very fast, but it seems it is hardware problem. gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r1 -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/
