Atheros

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:50 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 11:28 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> > Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > > Hi, I just joined this list, but I too (like others) have hal crashing
> > > when it tries to deal with my Atheros wifi card.  Is there any solution?
> > 
> > You can comment out the call to mii_get_link() in 
> > net_class_pre_process() in hald/linux/net_class_device.c.
> > 
> > I believe the consensus was to rip out link checking for wireless 
> > devices shortly.
> > 
> 
> Okay, so I've did this now, it's in CVS, it took some time as was at
> GUADEC and I had to revive my old x86 laptop, install Linux and get the
> acx100 driver to work with my D-LINK DWL-650+. Please test if it works
> on the Atheros now.

There is one other thing missing with the atheros too. The driver does
not create the 'device' link in sysfs. I've posted this patch to the
list yesterday:

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5056160&forum_id=33966

My AR5212 is cool now, with HAL :)

Thanks,
Kay 


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