For one reason or another, I have got Windows running again on my laptop. Very long story but I am soon to go back to my preferred Debian. One thing I have noticed is that although the laptop is crawling again, the wireless performance is way, way better using windows. When using Debian, I use the ath5k driver by default, as in I did not have to do anything to get wireless working out of the box. However, speeds are normally about 25% to 30% lower, if not more and not very reliable. Set up is exactly the same but man, performance is much better under windows.... :x: Is anyone experiencing the same? Is there anyway of boosting wireless connection with ath5k? Ta, very moch for looking...
I've got a similar chipset on my ATOM-based mini-ITX media center, which is running Debian Lenny and the ATOM kernel from the HWF repos. The wireless reception on that chipset is *sweet* in 2.6.32.xx. Which kernel are you running on your Deb box? EDIT: I take it back, it seems to be a more advanced chipset after all:
Hey AT. Thanks for responding. I was using Debian Testing running the latest HWF Kernel (as you already noted 2.6.32.xx). Perhaps I should look into getting a better chipped wifi card?
Given... unfortunately, when I try to use the module-assistant it cannot get the source (madwifi was dropped in Lenny and onwards.... I think :x. I know it sounds pathetically lame but this obviously means that I will need to build madwifi from source after getting the source outside the Dedian repositories... right?
Looks like it's in non-free: ...Or you could just download the latest source from madwifi.org and build it yourself. They do have rather good instructions on how to build and install it in Debian IIRC. http://madwifi-project.org/