My MSI Wind U123 has an 802.11n wifi card that uses the Ath9k driver. Although it’s technically supported by the 2.6.31 kernel used by Fedora 12, it constantly drops it’s signal and often refuses to connect to my access point.
I’m happy to report, however, that after I manually compiled the 2.6.32 kernel and booted with it, the wireless card works perfectly!
Unfortunately, it seems the 2.6.32 kernel also breaks a few things – booting takes 3 minutes, and the machine hard locks on with a black screen if you close the lid. I’m going to try to iron out those issues, but overall I’m pleased with the results.
Edit: I re-installed Fedora 12, then updated to the 2.6.32.1 kernel using the FC13 rpm’s from http://mirror.kernel.org – works like a charm now. I still can’t close the lid unless I have the action set to ‘do nothing’, but I can deal with that.
Additional Edit (02/15/2010): I’ve enabled the Rawhide repo and set it to only include kernel* and dependencies. The 2.6.33 RC chain works perfectly.
