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Preventing atheros card from being disconnected often

February 26, 2008 – 4:18 pm

Found out this solution at ubuntu forums after googling a bit. I was totally fed up with the connection acting out randomly. The solution lies in locking the network interface to a specific 802.11 a/b/g mode.
Edit your /etc/rc.local file and add the following lines before exit 0
modprobe ath_pci
(sleep 10 && /sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3) &

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By anomit | Posted in Problems | Comments (0)

Fedora 8 on HP 6515b

December 4, 2007 – 1:49 pm

Well i have installed Fedora 8 now and well i was facing the usual problems, install proceeded well in text mode without any problems but on booting after the ATI driver install i was presented with a console login that is no xserver started and then started the problem with WiFi, ndiswrapper wont install it [...]

By Ankur | Posted in Install, Problems | Comments (3)