From: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k: problems with wireless network data transfer
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:02:02 +0100
Cc: Tim Hawkins <tim.hawkins@mac.com>,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 05 February 2009, Tim Hawkins wrote:

> this problem has been around for some time, users of the "aspire one"
> know to turn off the ath5k driver
> and use a branch of the madwifi driver patched with AR242x support,
> otherwise wireless networking is completely unreliable.
>
> The problem appears to be poor support for ar242x in the current in
> the wild version in most popular distros.
>
> The ath5k drive will load and appear to work, but is so flaky that it
> is virtually unusable.

Thanks for reporting the links where are described similar problems. You have 
a AR242x chip, from what I have understood the MAC+PHY part is common to my 
AR5212. So the problem could be related to the MAC management inside ath5k. I 
don't know if it's related by here I can see 5 AP, maybe the medium is too 
crowded.