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

[Tomás T. <tom...@gm...>]

OK, I've blacklisted ath_pci and then on reboot ath9k has been loaded instead 
of madwifi. Sadly, the problem remains, and no networks are found in any way. 
It's totally incredible.

I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble. Thank you very much


El Sunday 28 December 2008 23:21:21 Justin P. Mattock escribió:
> 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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