Comment 36 for bug 122703

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Fisslefink (erin-simonds) wrote : Re: [Bug 122703] Re: Upgrade Atheros drivers to snapshot/trunk to support AR5008
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sorry, should be "as I was using r3407"

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Erin Simonds <email address hidden> wrote:

> Someone updated the Wireless section of the "Installing Ubuntu on a
> Macbook Pro"<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro#head-688700b3e0e48847a28daba8bc557d4439a30927>wiki to say that the madwifi drivers later than version SVN r3403 do not
> work with the Ar5418 chip. This was reported as bug 1852<http://madwifi.org/ticket/1852>at
> madwifi.org and many users have confirmed that r3403 works for this chip,
> but not with r3408 and later. In the cases where it did not work, they
> could see networks, but not join them.
>
> I suspect the broken SVN version caused the problems I reported on this
> Ubuntu bug ticket, as I was using . Just something to keep in mind --
> madwifi is still a work in progress, but it can work if you get the right
> SVN version.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Tim Gardner <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu Hardy)
> > Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) => Timo Aaltonen
> > (tjaalton)
> >
> > ** Changed in: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu Hardy)
> > Status: Triaged => In Progress
> >
> > --
> > Upgrade Atheros drivers to snapshot/trunk to support AR5008
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122703
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> > of the bug.
> >
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