{"id":60,"date":"2009-04-18T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericmartel.net\/blogue\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-04-13T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:15:13","slug":"ath_pci-3-times-faster-than-ath5k-on-asus-eee-pc-701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"ath_pci 3 times faster than ath5k on Asus Eee PC 701"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geteasypeasy.com\/\">Easy Peasy<\/a> 1.0 on my Asus Eee PC 701 some weeks ago and everything was fine till today when I applied updates (I&rsquo;m on Intreprid repositaries) and my wi-fi stopped working although the wi-fi LED was on. I was on the ath5k module, and it was loaded. However, some googling taught me that the ath5k should be dropped in favor of the madwifi driver (ath_pci module). However, the ath_pci module was not on my system with the kernel 2.6.27-8-eeepc and linux-restricted-modules-eeepc. An <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">apt-file search ath_pci <\/span>returned (among others) linux-restricted-modules-generic, but it was for the generic kernel and not the eeepc specific one. So I downloaded the latest stable version (0.9.4) of madwifi and tried to compile it, but there was a compilation error. I then got the trunk development version (<span class=\"searchword1\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">svn<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> checkout http:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"searchword1\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">svn<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span><span class=\"searchword0\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">madwifi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">-project.org\/<\/span><span class=\"searchword0\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">madwifi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\/<\/span><span class=\"searchword2\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">trunk<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><span class=\"searchword0\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">madwifi<\/span>), and it worked.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line is: ath_pci is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3 times faster<\/span> than ath5k on my 701! I was simply amazed.<\/p>\n<p>Note: don&rsquo;t forget to blacklist ath5k (the madwifi-tools package does that automatically).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed Easy Peasy 1.0 on my Asus Eee PC 701 some weeks ago and everything was fine till today when I applied updates (I&rsquo;m on Intreprid repositaries) and my wi-fi stopped working although the wi-fi LED was on. I was on the ath5k module, and it was loaded. However, some googling taught me that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informatique"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oQvl-Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogue.ericmartel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}