On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Bruno Randolf <b...@einfach.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 11:29:27 Robert Brown wrote: >> I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 on an Acer Aspire ZG5 netbook that contains >> Atheros wifi hardware. There's a sticker on the back that says "Atheros >> AR5BXB63". The uname command reports the kernel version as >> 2.6.32-22-generic. I'm using the ath5k driver. > > could you tell us the chipset version? the output of dmesg, just the line > which looks similar to: > "ath5k phy2: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa5, PHY: 0x61)" > >> I often get corrupted data when downloading files using wget and often >> experience broken ssh connections with errors that imply corrupted packets. >> I see messages like the following in the system log: >> >> [24051.016838] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo > > this warning is nothing to worry about. it has been removed in newer kernels. > > the corrupted packets are something to worry about, however... ;( > >> I didn't have the data corruption problems 6 or 8 months ago with the >> previous "Karmic" Ubuntu release and older kernels. They appeared at some >> point with a system update. > > that's interresting. so we have to figure out which change caused this > regression. > >> I'd like to help figure out what's wrong. What can I do to assist with >> tracking down this problem? > > could you try a more recent version of ath5k? first thing to try is the recent > compat-wireless. i'm not sure what's the ubuntu way of getting it, but it > should be possible to compile it manually against your kernel.
For ubuntu there are lbm packages but that is based on the stable releases of compat-wireless. To avoid getting the jumbo frame messages he'd have to use bleeding edge stuff: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/#Getting_compat-wireless_on_Ubuntu Luis _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
