GNU/Linux Qualcomm Atheros ath5k wireless driver is now working but has some issues
Hardware Spec
- HP Compaq Presario CQ61
- Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter
WiFi ON/OFF button now enables and disables WiFi but LED(s) behaves differently to the way it does in windows.
With opensuse gnu/linux and the ath5k driver the LED remains orange when wifi is either on or off but flickers blue when there is some network traffic as opposed to windoz where it is always orange when wifi is off and always blue when wifi is on.
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# lshw -c network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:24:2b:cb:ac:99
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k driverversion=4.4.85-22-default firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.66 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:16 memory:d3500000-d350ffff
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