Gutsy and Atheros wireless - my experience

[O. Sinclair]

I know I am top-posting but I would try WICD (works fine with WPA and x 
number of other methods)
http://wicd.sourceforge.net

Sinclair

Mike Leone wrote:
> Derek Broughton (news at pointerstop.ca) had this to say on 10/29/07 at 09:10: 
>> Mike Leone wrote:
>>
>>> I needed to install kwlan; 
>> why?
> 
> Because I needed WPA support, and installing wpa_supplicant said it wanted
> it. (I think) Something wanted it; I didn't just make that up. :-)
> 
>>> that install wanted to dump 
>>> network-manager-kde. OK, fine. Since I use WPA-PSK for security, I had
>>> to go find and install that, too (you'd think that would get installed
>>> by default, just so that you'd have the tools to have a secure wireless
>>> set up on your laptop, whether you activate the feature or no. But
>>> whatever.
>> Everything needed is installed with network-manager-kde, so you just turfed
>> that and complain that you don't have what you need...
> 
> Well, no - the NIC didn't work until I installed kwlan, so something wasn't right
> ...
> 
>>> Over the next 120 minutes, it dropped and reacquired signal 37 times. It
>>> would disconnect, and then reconnect. Repeatedly.
>>>
>>> Again, this is using exact same hardware (system, NIC, router) that
>>> never once dropped a signal on edgy. Exact same settings, too. Yet it
>>> got to the point that I was ready to rename the system "yo-yo", because
>>> it went up and down so often.
>> OK, that's not nice, but again - since you threw out the network software
>> that comes as part of kubuntu, you're not in much of a position to
>> complain.
> 
> Sure I am - I didn't "throw out" anything, anyhting that got uninstalled was
> done by aptitude (well, I told it to, but that was because it recommended
> it).
> 
>>> My conclusion - gutsy is not ready for me to try and use my Atheros
>>> card. 
>> Do the same thing with Network-manager, with the same results, and I'll
>> agree you have a problem with gutsy (and I won't be surprised, either - NM
>> doesn't work for everyone), but if you start out by throwing away parts of
>> the gutsy install, and then say gutsy doesn't work, you're getting what you
>> deserve.
> 
> 
> I couldn't get the NIC to be recognized at all with network-manager.
> 
> What's with the attitude? You don't have to respond, you know, and I never
> said that my experiences were the same as everyone's.
> 
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