[Mageia-discuss] Atheros AR9285 wifi

[Marc Paré]

Le 2012-04-17 14:28, Marc Paré a écrit :

>
> Just letting people know of the fix for this unit.
>
> The laptop's owner returned it so that I could work on a possible fix to
> the wifi connection. After some testing and trouble shooting, I deleted
> the NetworkManager through the MCC which allowed a more reliable
> connection and I also created this file in etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf
> with the line "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" which for some unknown reason
> made for an even more solid connection <-- I found this recommendation
> on a thread somewhere but lost the location.
>
> The laptop now connects to the internet and does not turn itself out,
> and, it no longer cuts in and out randomly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
>

Just wanted to add that I noticed this thread on the dev list discussing 
this problem. It looks like it will be fixed in the next kernel update. 
Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139270&p=1

Cheers,

Marc