Bug#959821: linux-image-5.6.0-1-amd64: Linux 5.6.0 kernel breaks hostapd 5 GHz AP mode on Atheros radios

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Berg
I found the associated ath10k mailing list thread https://www.mail-archive.com/ath10k@lists.infradead.org/msg12068.html In that thread, Wen Gong (author of the changes in git commit 2dc016599cfa9672a147528ca26d70c3654a5423)

Bug#959821: linux-image-5.6.0-1-amd64: Linux 5.6.0 kernel breaks hostapd 5 GHz AP mode on Atheros radios

2020-05-05 Thread Michael Berg
Package: src:linux Version: 5.6.7-1 Severity: normal After upgrading to linux-image-5.6.0-1-amd64 on my Linux-based wireless access-point (AP), hostapd is no longer able to configure the Atheros radios for the 5 GHz band. On the old 5.5 kernel, `iw list` shows the following for the 5 GHz band.