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2011 Jan 25
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Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster
...t.
After 8 hours on Saturday I could sometimes see hubs in the
neighbourhood but could not connect to my own hub using WPA2.
iwlist wlan0 scan
produced technical details of local hubs - but still could not connect.
NetworkManager sometimes froze.
Spent many hours Googling for his wifi adaptor Altheros AR928K which
uses a driver known as ATH9K. Many others have had a similar problem.
Kernel 2.6.27 apparently includes this driver but Centos 5.5 is 2.6.18.
On my Sony Vaio netbook I abandoned XP and installed Centos 5.5. No wifi
(yet XP had) but luckily for me I eventually discovered the Altheros...