Comment 29 for bug 276508

Hi Leann (@ #26),

Certainly, and now I final got hold of the Karmic Beta ISO.

Unfortunately, as stated by Andreas Jonsson above, it doesn't seem to make any difference using LBM in nither Karmic Beta nor Jaunty (newest kernel 2.6.28-15.20). In fact in Karmic Beta I'm often able get connected with the ath5k module from the kernel image, but only got connected one time with the ath5k module from LBM. Fore both modules, when able to connect, the connection is unreliable and has extreme low throughput - mostly 10-20 Kbit/sec contrary the madwifi modules 16-18 Mbit/sec. So the LBM do not change anything in either Karmic Beta og Jaunty, and seems to make things slightly worse in Karmic.

I've too found that the LBM according to the attached dmesg log, seem not to adjust the "World regulatory domain", a thereby not making the channel 12 and 13 (legal in the EU) usable.

Unfortunatly I now too can add an other Atheros based ThinkPad adaptor to the list of not usable with the ath5k module, as a friend had an older Thinkpad which we tested with Karmic Beta. The throughput was with this adapter a little better though, but still only in Kbit/sec. Finally a Madwifi module compiled from source made it as usable as it did with the Express adapter.

The list of tested and NOT usable with ath5k modules now contains the following PCI ID's:

[168c:1014] sub [1014:058a] : ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini Express Adapter (mini-PCIe version).
[168c:1014] sub [1014:057e] : IBM 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Adapter (Older mini-PCI version).
[168c:0013] sub [14b9:cb21] : Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g Wireless CardBus Adapter (External PCMCIA non-ThinkPad).

Attaching files showing which modules (and byte size) that was loaded under during the tests.

BTW Is it possible for somone to change the headline of this bug, removing the [Intrepid] stuff ?, as this bug now covers Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic Beta.