ath5k?

[list phuk ath cx]

Hello,

I have an AR5212 WLAN adapter that runs with the ath5k driver from linux 
2.6.31. I've tried NM 0.7.1 and 0.7.1_p20090824, and both fail to 
operate that card correctly. It works flawlessly with wicd or 
wpa_supplicant, but in nm-applet it says "device not ready".
In syslog I see:

Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1014_rfkill_phy0_wlan
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): driver supports 
SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi 
device (driver: 'ath5k')
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_05_4e_47_24_10
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the 
supplicant...
Oct 26 00:42:47 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system 
settings daemon...
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.952901] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is 
not ready
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.953399] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 
Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state 
change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese [25148.986093] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is 
not ready
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating 
device (reason: 2).
Oct 26 00:42:52 wiese NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: 
assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed

BTW, this happens now after I changed the system from Ubuntu 9.04 to 
Gentoo for performance reasons. In Ubuntu it used to work (also with 
ath5k). I have no idea if they patched nm or ath5k what else they might 
do differently.

thanks for any hints...