Update of at76 driver to 0.17 required
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Tim Gardner | ||
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Ubuntu Kernel Network Team | ||
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Ubuntu Kernel Network Team |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-ubuntu-
I was testing a WiFi adapter I've got quite some time ago on both my main system (Kubuntu 7.04 AMD64) and test system (Kubuntu 7.10 AMD64).
The adapter is an Inventel USB WLAN, based on an Atmel at76c505a chip.
I've managed to get it working once (on Feisty using KNetworkManager), but most of the time, it does not work (cannot associate to the acces point, using KNetworkManager or iwconfig), and the at76_usb driver often crashes when I unplug the adapter from the USB port, preventing the system to shutdown correctly (hard reset required).
Both Feisty and Gutsy seem to have the same version 0.14beta1 of the driver bundled into the linux-ubuntu-
On Gutsy, I've tried to build the driver from the at76c503a-source package (version 0.15~dev0.
Then, I've downloaded the latest version of the driver from http://
So it would be great to upgrade the at76c503a driver to this new version 0.17 to get these at76c50x based WiFi adapter working out of the box.
Changed in linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24: | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-kernel-network |
Changed in linux: | |
assignee: | nobody → apw |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | apw → timg-tpi |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
Another note: since this new at76c503a driver version 0.17 works great with Gutsy, I've just compiled and installed it on my Feisty system with the same result: the WiFi adapter is perfectly detected and configured by KNetworkManager and there was no crash so far.