Comment 102 for bug 300693

Just an update

I made the necessary changes to move from the madwifi drivers (ath_hal & ath_pck) to the backport version of ath5k on a lenovo R61i. I'm testing it with WICD and it appears to be working. The WICD GUI isn't functioning completely correctly because of what appears to be some issues with the ath5k driver once it connects to an AP. One sympton is the GUI will not update the available wireless networks available and their signal strengths. I've confimed that with the iwlist wlan0 scan command which comes back with: wlan0 Failed to read scan data : Resource temporarily unavailable.

Some background information:

2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu

/code modinfo ath5k
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.31-19-generic/updates/cw/ath5k.ko
version: 0.6.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)
license: Dual BSD/GPL
description: Support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards.
author: Nick Kossifidis
author: Jiri Slaby
srcversion: A397F3354A25FCEF4EB95DF
depends: mac80211,led-class,cfg80211,ath
vermagic: 2.6.31-19-generic SMP mod_unload modversions 586
parm: nohwcrypt:Disable hardware encryption. (bool)
parm: all_channels:Expose all channels the device can use. (bool) /code

/code lsmod | grep ath
ath5k 121988 0
mac80211 210572 1 ath5k
ath 8444 1 ath5k
cfg80211 130632 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
led_class 4096 3 ath5k,sdhci,thinkpad_acpi /code

/code *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5212 802.11abg NIC
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:22:68:90:a2:d0
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k ip=192.168.1.136 latency=0 mult /code

I'll run it for a few days to see if I spot any additional anomalies with the combination or if it causes a panic.