[Bug 463625] Re: Atheros AR5212 poor connection speed

[Christiansen]

@ashgtx

Nope, madwifi is out of K/Ubuntu for good I think, and ath5k despite all the bug are the one non-hackers are bound to from the 9.10 release. The good news is that the ath5k module in compat-wireless-2010-04-19.tar.bz2 from:   http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/
is easier and faster to compile than madwifi (just remember to do a "./scripts/driver-select ath5k" first), and that this particular bug (and probably many other ath5k's) finally been solved.

Right now the only way to get this updated driver without compiling, is to use the K/Ubuntu mainline and precompiled 2.6.36 RC1 kernel image (and the 2 header) packages for your CPU architecture from:  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc1-lucid/
The driver will according to the upstream kernel guys never come to the 2.6.32 kernel, which Lucid is based upon. 

What I think we_could_hope_for, is that someone will put this an updated
compat-wireless stack in the repository as the "linux-backports-modules-
wireless-lucid-generic" package (right now referencing to a NOT
fixed/updated "linux-backports-modules-wireless-2.6.32-22-generic"
package).

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Atheros AR5212 poor connection speed
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