Comment 29 for bug 288148

If you can live with the performance....

Go to www.2wire.com and check the speed meter (just for comparison)

Kernel ath5K from LBM: 156 KBPS
NDIS Wrapper with net511 driver: 2.37 MBPS

from same location with same interference levels.

Pings to the local router show similar performance with NDIS Wrapper
driver in under 2 msec and Kernel driver in the 200 msec range.

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 23:17 +0000, eks wrote:

> To make the ath5k module from the LBM work you need to blacklist the
> others (ath_pci and ath_hal) and make sure ath5k is not blacklisted
> anywhere. Community solution was posted on the wiki here:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros
>
> And on the forums.
>
> And really people, "ubuntu-devel" and "kernel-team lists" are not
> something you can call "public". They don't show up on google searches,
> they don't show up for the end user (if they even are accessible by the
> end-user). If you want to make something public, right now Ubuntu seems
> to have JUST the forums. Maybe this is something that should be thought
> out better, but right now if you want to make something public, simple
> information like "your wifi will certainly break after this upgrade,
> please install package X", you *need to post in the forums*, preferably
> making a sticky out of it.
>
> ---> I strongly agree with Paul O'Keefe and Willem2k, *this was not
> publicized enough.*
>