Comment 15 for bug 275423
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| Andy Figueroa (figueroa-andyfigueroa) wrote | #15 |
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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.