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  1. Bug #461419
  2. Comment #490

Comment 490 for bug 461419

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Prunus dulcis (prunus-dulcis) wrote : Re: [Karmic Lucid] Atheros AR5211 - ath5k driver connection and performance issues

Thinkpad X41 Tablet
Installed the compat-wireless package (from end of May). It now takes minutes instead of seconds to connect to the wireless network (and therefore several manual retrials) - error message is simple try1-3 and then timeout.

After a few minutes the connection suddenly works usually and then the dmesg output gets really strange with several cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated: - messages, I don't understand and never saw before.

The good part is, the connection is stable (at least the applet does not indicate a reconnection) but the connection still comes to a halt sometimes (once or twice a minute usually for a few seconds) - it feels better, anyway, thanks for that work!

System-upgrades (like today with open-office-updates) lead to time-outs in the update-GUI nontheless. So still not entirely there but it is finally at least getting a bit better since the connection does not drop out anymore.

I attached an example of the dmesg log.