Re: [Mactel-linux-users] How to uninstall madwifi driver

[Justin P. M. <jus...@gm...>]

Well make sure you blacklist one
Of them, this way there's no confusion. Running ath9k here
Seems perfect.

Regards;

justin P. Mattock



On Dec 28, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Tomás Teijeiro <tom...@gm...>  
wrote:

> El Sunday 28 December 2008 19:55:19 Justin P. Mattock escribió:
>> Tomás Teijeiro wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I have a macbook (2,1) with Kubuntu Intrepid x86_64 installed. Since
>>> wireless works out of the box with ath9k, I've installed the madwifi
>>> driver (trunk r3878) because of better performance and network  
>>> detection.
>>> The problem is that if I want to go back to ath9k, no networks are  
>>> found
>>> and I'm unable to connect to anyone. What I did is to reinstall the
>>> linux-generic package (at the moment 2.6.27-11-generic). The  
>>> wmaster0 and
>>> wlan0 interfaces are sucesfully created, but they don't work. No  
>>> special
>>> dmesg messages are shown. What can I do to recover wireless with  
>>> ath9k?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for your help,
>>>
>>> Tomas
>>>
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>>
>> Hmm I experience the same issue,
>> i.g. wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iath0(or wlan0) -c /etc/*
>> seems to gives me nothing,
>> but if I use NetworkManager both modules
>> run fine.
>> maybe try an older version of wpa_supplicant,
>> or use NetworkManager, or wicd.
>>
>> regards;
>>
>> Justin P. Mattock
>
>
> Thanks Justin,
>
> But the problem is that the interfaces don't work properly. For  
> example, if  I
> execute:
> iwlist wlan0 scan
> No networks are found, although there is an AP with WEP encryption  
> near the
> computer. Moreover, I'm using wicd as my network manager. On the  
> other side,
> if I test a Kubuntu Intrepid live-CD, wifi works well with ath9k.
>
> I think that the problem is that the madwifi installation has  
> removed or
> replaced some key modules of ath9k, but is strange, because the  
> problem
> remains after booting with different kernels.
>
> Again, thank you very much for your help;
>
> Tomas
>
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