Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0: transmit timed out

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Monday 28 July 2008 14:53:41 Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:10:46 -0700
> >
> > "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I should'nt be posting this, due to
> >> having  tainted modules(madwifi), but
> >
> > and fglrx
> >
> >> I figured I might as well:(below)
> >>
> >> [ 5000.986044] NETDEV WATCHDOG: wifi0: transmit timed out
> >
> > and what's more... it's the the wifi that's b0rked.
> >
> > sounds like you want to switch to ath5k or ath9k.
> >
> >
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>
> If there's support for the 5418 card that the macbook pro has.
> interesting when lspci I'm not seeing the card number(below is lspci)
> As for the fglrx "f*&k it" too much of a pain.:

Yep check out the linux-wireless archives for more info, but ath9k is ready 
and working on your hardware. I've got a Macbook with the same chipset and 
it's totally fine (2.6.26+wireless-testing+ath9k).

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.
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