AR928x

mr19 · #1 16th October 2009, 07:54 AM

Installing FC11 and having problems with an Atheros AR928X card. When using NM is correctly sees my AP & identifies it as using WPA2, requests password & tries to connect. After a while it times out and requests the password again.

Tried connecting using wpa_supplicant steps (as documented on another post here in the forums but was unsuccessful). Would say it was associated, then get a CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED and start over.

Any ideas? Looks to be using the ath9k drivers.

TIA
Marc

scottro · #2 16th October 2009, 11:32 AM

My (very subjective) impression is that the support for the ath9k is improving in F12. F11, though was better than Ubuntu's. It still seems a little rough around the edges though, I will get dropped connections, but fewer in Fedora than in anything else save Arch.

So, not much help from me, merely an observation that you're not alone, and it seems that the ath9k support has to get a bit better, which, no doubt, it will with time.

Sorry I can't give you better answers. For what it's worth, I use it with wpa_supplicant.

You can also check firewalls, thought neither that nor selinux in their default configurations should be an issue.

nyjetshead · #3 16th October 2009, 02:43 PM

Agree with Scottro, I went as far as installing the latest stable compat wireless and it actually made it worse.
I tried to get F12 beta Live to boot without success to see if things have improved.

Scottro: I suppose you have have tested F12 based on your comments.

mr19 · #4 16th October 2009, 03:12 PM

Thanks for the responses. I have a few netgear usb wireless sticks floating around that i'll give a try -- hopefully that is less painful.

scottro · #5 16th October 2009, 09:17 PM

@nyjetshead, firstly sorry about your team the last two weeks, last week was close. Seems they have a very good team though.

Yes, I've been using it with Fedora 12, Ubuntu Koala, and Arch. Arch has probably worked best, Fedora second. But, haven't been using it all that much.

nyjetshead · #6 16th October 2009, 10:29 PM

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firstly sorry about your team the last two weeks, last week was close. Seems they have a very good team though.

Thanks ! They're exceeding my expectations... The Fish won't get away with that in our house! Buffalo shouldn't present a problem.

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Yes, I've been using it with Fedora 12, Ubuntu Koala, and Arch. Arch has probably worked best, Fedora second. But, haven't been using it all that much.

If it's better in Arch then I would expect F12 to be better as well thanks for the info!

scottro · #7 8th November 2009, 01:30 PM

A followup on this. At least lately, in rawhide, the ath9k seems very iffy. It drops every few minutes. Seems the same in Ubuntu, haven't been trying too much with Arch.

There are various bug reports and patches on kernel buglists--some folks having success, others aren't. I'm going to try with the latest patches from git and see how they do.

scottro · #8 8th November 2009, 06:15 PM

Ok, it turns out it's a known (but apparently ignored) regression in all 2.6.30 and up kernels. Yet another victory for MS on Netbooks.

Sigh.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13807

scottro · #9 8th November 2009, 09:53 PM

One more addition. On a fresh install, I just tried today's build from http://wireless.kernel.org/download/...-wireless-2.6/
and it seems to be doing the trick. The problem with this is that it will have to be rebuilt each time the kernel is upgraded.