Fwd: Issue : wireless networking "on-the-fly"

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 18:02:42 GMT 2006


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> > It doesn't work with all the drivers (atheros by example). This has been
> > discussed during the distribution team meeting today, Scott who works on
> > it will mail the mailing list to explain what are the issue with it.
> > That's likely it'll be promoted for main (maybe ship) but not part of
> > the default desktop due to that.
>
>
> Well, I'm using an atheros driver on an atheros chipset. (device ath0)  If
> you receive this then it works ;-)
> Thanks, I will wait fot the email :-)

The specific issue is that apparently atheros drops off with NM, due
to scanning. However, I likewise have an atheros card and have not run
into this. It maybe specific to certain revisions of the atheros
chipset.

Corey



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