Atheros 5424/2424 problem with scan

[Espartano]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Bruce Anthony Grobler
<bruce at yoafrica.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just got my wireless card recognised (Atheros 5424/2424 ),
>
> dmesg:
>
>> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0xf6000000-0xf600ffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3
>> ath0: [ITHREAD]
>> ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
>> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:e1:6a:98:4f
>> ath0: mac 14.2 phy 7.0 radio 10.2
>>
>
> though when I do a ifconfig ath0 up scan it hangs,
>

You could try with:

# ath0 up list scan



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