Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:03:14 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallón" <> | Subject | Re: ath5k on the Acer Aspire One |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:51:31 +0200, "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com> wrote:
> Hi... > > I have just got a One, and have installed a standard distro (not Linpus), > Mandriva in my case. > > Everything works pretty nicely but WiFi. Hardware is: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) > > The driver used is ath5k. On load, it logs this: > > > Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k_pci 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0' > Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k phy0: Support for RF2425 is under development. > Aug 15 01:13:57 one klogd: ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) >
Thanks to everyone that answered, probably the solution is an update to the driver, hardware support for this chip was added in 27-rc. My distro still uses 26.2.
I'm going on holydays for a week now, will make more tests on return, and continue the thread.
Thanks everyone.
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