TP Link WN851ND - Computer freezing

[puma pops]

My pc freezes randomly within about 1 / 2 minutes of turning the PC on. The issue is with the wireless as it freezes as soon as it tries to connect to the network.

I've done a bit of googling and it appears that the issue is with the ath9k driver allowing the card to do some sort of stack overflow that locks up the system?

Is there any way I can install fedora with an updated kernal as the 3.5.x and onwards kernels work fine?

Or is there anything else I could do to fix this?

Thanks
AL

[george_toolan]

You could either blacklist the driver or remove the card while you install Fedora 17 and then update the system with an ethernet connection or just wait for Fedora 18 which should have an updated kernel.