My card worked correctly with Madwifi in Etch (stable). Lenny (stable) replaced
it by ath5k and is really bad.
Also it worked bad in other distributions with a kernel more updated. It was a
chaos until I discovered the problem: ath5k.
The speed and response of the ADSL connection are terribly bad with ath5k, nor
approach a modem of 56 KB, although it does not become disconnected. I did not
obtain better results when I deactivated IPv6 in the system and web browser.
Lamentably I must use propietary driver.
Regards.
Info:
# dmesg (ethernet error???):
[ 225.618502] irq 7: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[ 225.618509] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1
[ 225.618511]
[ 225.618512] Call Trace:
[ 225.618514][] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x72
[ 225.618537] [] note_interrupt+0x1fd/0x23b
[ 225.618543] [] handle_level_irq+0xa8/0xde
[ 225.618549] [] do_IRQ+0x6d/0xd9
[ 225.618552] [] default_idle+0x0/0x49
[ 225.618554] [] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x19
[ 225.618556][] native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
[ 225.618566] [] native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
[ 225.618570] [] default_idle+0x2a/0x49
[ 225.618572] [] cpu_idle+0x89/0xb3
[ 225.618582]
[ 225.618583] handlers:
[ 225.618585] [] (b44_interrupt+0x0/0xe7 [b44])
[ 225.618592] Disabling IRQ #7
# cat /proc/interrupts:
7: 2631952848504XT-PIC-XTeth0
# uname -a (Lenny stable):
Linux dimension 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 17:57:00 UTC 2009 x86_64
GNU/Linux
# hwinfo:
08: PCI 409.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.281]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_13
Unique ID: xFhm.+xpX4rQtix5
Parent ID: 37TO._XJP+gD25h8
SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:10.0/:04:09.0
SysFS BusID: :04:09.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC"
Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications, Inc."
Device: pci 0x0013 "AR5212 802.11abg NIC"
SubVendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications, Inc."
SubDevice: pci 0x1051
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "ath_pci"
Driver Modules: "ath_pci"
Device File: ath0
Device Files: ath0, wifi0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfdbe-0xfdbe (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 5 (1236816 events)
HW Address: 00:14:78:74:bd:9c
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452
2..457 2.462 2.467 2.472
WLAN bitrates: 1 2 5.5 6 9 11 12 18 24 36 48 54
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 WEP128
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v168Cd0013sv168Csd1051bc02sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ath5k is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath5k"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: ath_pci is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath_pci"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)
09: PCI 407.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.281]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_170c
Unique ID: 4Yqk.9UD5obL9oL7
Parent ID: 37TO._XJP+gD25h8
SysFS ID: /devices/pci:00/:00:10.0/:04:07.0
SysFS BusID: :04:07.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x170c "BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x01ed
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "b44"
Driver Modules: "ssb", "b44"
Memory Range: 0xfdbfe000-0xfdbf (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 7 (2830850 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v14E4d170Csv1028sd01EDbc02sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: b44 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe b44"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)
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