I have the new emachines D620 ($299 on sale last week at BestBuy). Atheros wifi is as follows according to Gentoo - lspci: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) Under Mint or Ubuntu it shows up in LSPCI as the AR242x Gentoo dmesg shows: ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
Using ath5k With both Mint (5-r1 fully updated with Mint Update and running Kernel 2.6.24-21) and Xubuntu x86 8:10, the wireless works perfectly after installing the backports. No other manual tweaking required. Getting this running under Gentoo was much more difficult and still not perfect. However, it does work pretty well with the current unstable kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r3 (also -r2). However, upon bringing up the interface, after a little delay I need to run "iwconfig wlan1 rate 11M" after which I get a stable interface with no packet loss and good speed. So, the current kernel driver is having trouble setting and holding the rate initially, but the Ubuntu backports module works perfectly as far as this user can tell. -- intrepid madwifi ath5k with AR242x not detecting all wireless networks and link speed is very poor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
