Comments on: How to set up Gentoo wireless networking on AMD64

By: nikhil

nikhil — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:40:36 +0000

can any one slove this

In the MadWiFi v.0.9.2 source code it appears that the function ath_calibrate() is called periodically. This function calls ath_hal_getrfgain() and if it returns HAL_RFGAIN_NEED_CHANGE, the function ath_reset() is called. AL_RFGAIN_NEED_CHANGE may mean that new gain values must be loaded, but ath_reset() does many other things including dropping any enqueued frames. As we don’t have a datasheet for PHY chip of Atheros PHY (5112), we are not sure but it seems it refers to ath_hal_getrfgain() (as defined in openHAL sources). Could you explain ath_hal_getrfgain() functionality of current HAL(not openHAL), and why does it need a full device reset?

if some one gets the answer mail me at nikvoodoo@gmail.com

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:43:53 +0000

This is very silly, but I found out after many months that I actually chose a single-core processor, thinking it was dual-core. The processor I listed is NOT dual-core. Everything else about this article remains true, though. If my processor were dual-core, nothing would change.

By: Karsten

Karsten — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:13:52 +0000

Yeah, Gentoo is a very nice Linux.

I also have a WLAN card with an Atheros chipset and it works fine since the day I bought it. No problems at all.

The MadWifi project does great work, and with emerge there shouldn't be a problem to install the kernel module.

But if you upgrade your kernel, don't forget to rebuild the atheros module. The last time I did an upgrade I wondered why there was no internet connection afterwards ;-)

Nice weblog, good opinions, I like it.
Greets from Dresden,
Karsten