linux-kernel - Re: [ath5k-devel] Bugs on aspire one A150

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Message-ID: <40f31dec0811101412n1a4faf86sf4b1f37bb41caef9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:12:14 +0200
From:	"Nick Kossifidis" <mickflemm@...il.com>
To:	"Maxim Levitsky" <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	"Bob Copeland" <me@...copeland.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, ath5k-devel@...ts.ath5k.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] Bugs on aspire one A150

2008/11/10 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>:
> Bob Copeland wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:
>>> ** 2 - wireless: not to mention the fact that ath5k wasn't installed by
>>> default in ubuntu...
>>> wireless more or less works, but kernel log is full of backtraces.
>>
>> As you've seen, these should at least be gone now...
>>
>>> Was able to connect to my WPA2 access point.
>>> Sometimes wireless fails completely, especially after suspend to ram.
>>
>> Did you get noise calibration failures in dmesg at this point?  Felix posted
>> a patch recently that handles them better.
> Yep, but they seems to be gone in latest -git too.
> Wireless work fine now, it seems like my iwl3945.
>
>>
>>> Advanced features like monitor/injection work, but when I changed the card's
>>> mac address it stopped working.
>>> I also noticed that if I then start airodump, then wireless works with new
>>> mac.
> Why it doesn't accept new mac?, can this be fixed?
>
>
>>
>>> ** 4 - wireless led doesn't work.
>>> ath5k devs, can you fix this?
>>
>> Currently all the LED code we have in there is for setting a particular gpio
>> for particular laptops (and they differ between models).  We only have quirks
>> for IBM and HP, none for Acer.  Also, the legacy-hal seems to have a different
>> strategy for 2425 chips.  I can try to hack up some code for you to test.
>>
>
> I have seen on the web that madwifi did support the led with some gpio settings
>
> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.ledpin=3
> sysctl -w dev.wifi0.softled=1
>
> from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne
>
> Best regards,
>        Maxim Levitsky

i think that some led settings are stored on EEPROM, let me check it out...


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