[Voyage-linux] removing madwifi and using ath5k

Punky Tse (spam-protected)
Mon Jan 17 20:17:09 HKT 2011


Hi

ath_pci and ath_hal means madwifi drivers are loaded.  Probably need to 
understand why blacklist won't work.  The other way is to remove madwifi 
module package entirely.

Regards,
Punky

>> I've followed the instructions at
>> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ath5khowto to remove madwifi
>> and use ath5k, however the following drivers are loaded when I boot:
>>
>> ath5k                 104506  0
>> mac80211              127641  1 ath5k
>> ath                     5892  1 ath5k
>> cfg80211               86313  3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
>> led_class               1765  2 leds_alix2,ath5k
>> ath_rate_minstrel       9632  1
>> ath_pci               173695  0
>> wlan                  165052  3 ath_rate_minstrel,ath_pci
>> ath_hal               342092  3 ath_rate_minstrel,ath_pci
>>
>> I added 'ath5k' to /etc/modules to get it loaded at boot.
> But this does already look quite good, no madwifi present, but all
> necessary parts of atk5k are up and loaded. What's the problem?
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