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Comment 46 for bug 461419

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Julius Thor (joolli) wrote : Re: [Karmic] Atheros AR5211 - ath5k driver connection and performance issues

I don't know if something has been done over the past week but now I'm able to keep a stable connection an AP in my University and I'm currently downloading karmic at 250-700KB/s where I would only get 2-15KB/s about a week ago and occasionally lose connection.

I'm on Karmic Beta
I recently installed linux-backports-modules-karmic and I'm on a Thinkpad T60

lspci -v
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
        Subsystem: IBM Device 058a
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        Memory at edf00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel <?>
        Kernel driver in use: ath5k
        Kernel modules: ath5k, ath_pci

ath_pci is present because I installed it from source.