Re: [ath5k-devel] Bugs on aspire one A150

[Maxim Levitsky]

Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2008/11/10 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Bob Copeland wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > ** 2 - wireless: not to mention the fact that ath5k wasn't installed by
> > > > default in ubuntu...
> > > > wireless more or less works, but kernel log is full of backtraces.
> > > As you've seen, these should at least be gone now...
> > >
> > > > Was able to connect to my WPA2 access point.
> > > > Sometimes wireless fails completely, especially after suspend to ram.
> > > Did you get noise calibration failures in dmesg at this point?  Felix posted
> > > a patch recently that handles them better.
> > Yep, but they seems to be gone in latest -git too.
> > Wireless work fine now, it seems like my iwl3945.
> >
> > > > Advanced features like monitor/injection work, but when I changed the card's
> > > > mac address it stopped working.
> > > > I also noticed that if I then start airodump, then wireless works with new
> > > > mac.
> > Why it doesn't accept new mac?, can this be fixed?

Any update on mac changer status?

> > > > ** 4 - wireless led doesn't work.
> > > > ath5k devs, can you fix this?
> > > Currently all the LED code we have in there is for setting a particular gpio
> > > for particular laptops (and they differ between models).  We only have quirks
> > > for IBM and HP, none for Acer.  Also, the legacy-hal seems to have a different
> > > strategy for 2425 chips.  I can try to hack up some code for you to test.
> > I have seen on the web that madwifi did support the led with some gpio settings
> >
> > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
> > sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1
> >
> > from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
> >
> > Best regards,
> >        Maxim Levitsky
>
> i think that some led settings are stored on EEPROM, let me check it out...

Thanks a lot.


>

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky
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