On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:54:39AM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:14:02AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote: > > It sounds like an rfkill issue -- does compat-wireless work (which has > > better rfkill support). > > I cloned compat-wireless GIT tree and build HEAD as of last night. > "iwlist ath0 scan" works!
Great! > I am nervous about using a bleeding edge kernel. Which ko files do I > need to copy to run the ath5k compat-wireless driver with my debian > 2.6.30 kernel? Well, compat-wireless contains just the modules you need (mac80211.ko, cfg80211.ko, ath.ko and ath5k.ko, [rfkill.ko?] along with all the other wireless drivers). Just to make sure, you did build compat-wireless and not wireless-testing? Most people use the snapshots for c-w instead of the git tree. That said, current mac80211 has been a little flaky for me so you may try c-w snapshots from a month ago. I would normally suggest just grabbing the relevant patch but it depends on the new rfkill framework. You can try the patch in this bugzilla entry (be sure to invert the check as I indicated in the comments, and you may have to change the path in the patch): http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12298 > Yah, the switch is really annoying because it is so easy to hit > accidentally. Is there a way to ignore the kill switch so wireless is > always available? Hmm, that I do not know. My initial impression is that we can't ignore the hardware switches, but I'm not an expert on the rfkill stuff. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
