>> I had the same problem with the DWA-547 that I bought yesterday. The >> system freezes deterministically everytime when I enter the WPA2 >> password in nm-applet. The next time booting, nm-applet had the >> password saved and tries to connect right away, hence it freezes before >> the Desktop is fully up. It is a 64bit Linux installation of Ubuntu >> 9.10, updated yesterday. > > A fix for AR9220 (or generally any PCI card with AR92xx chipset that is > not capable of working in the 5 GHz band) was committed to > wireless-testing two days ago. > That is great news! I will try this as soon as I find the time to open up my computer to plug in the card. Thanks a lot for doing this work!
>> I just booted from a 32bit Ubuntu 9.10 CD; then it works and doesn't >> freeze. So I assume it's a problem with the ath9k driver specifically in >> the 64bit kernel. Now I'll replace my 64bit installation with the 32bit >> one, as I have no reason to run 64bit Linux anyway. > > Well, it may be a different problem, as the initialization was wrong on > 32-bit kernels too. But I cannot be sure that incorrect initialization > would prevent the card from working every time. > Yes, indeed, I was hit by this bug in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Ubuntu (and Fedora if I don't misremember). Michael, if I may ask, which version of Windows do you run? I was testing this card with Windows 7 64-bit for comparison, and the card brought down the system in much the same was as it brought down Ubuntu for me. Regards, K. _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
