Quoting "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Tomi Orava > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/18/2010 11:58 PM, Mark Sutton wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:31:26PM -0800, Mark Sutton wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I have this problem as well. >>>> Hardware is: >>>> >>>> Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 >>>> Atheros AR5416 MAC/BB Rev:2 AR5133 RF Rev:81 >>>> >>>> Kernel:Linux 2.6.32.7 #2 PREEMPT Thu Feb 4 14:19:02 PST 2010 i686 >>>> GNU/Linux
<snip> > Karmic uses 2.6.31 which has already reached the end of its > development. You will no longer see stable kernel releases based on > 2.6.31.y kernels so best is to upgrade. ath9k had a large number of > patches which did not get merged into 2.6.31 [1] which should have, > which is why we worked hard for 2.6.32 to ensure all regressions/fixes > are propagated to stable. > > Karmic ships lbm though and that uses the 802.11 bits from 2.6.32 > which should be good. > > [1] > http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/fixes-not-in-2.6.31-for-ath9k.txt Unfortunately, I completely forgot to mention the very important fact that in my understanding the "standard" karmic kernels ie. 2.6.31.x worked quite ok compared to the compat-wireless versions included in linux-backports-karmic etc etc. In other words, my problem tends to be that the latest ath9k versions are having some problems, while the older 2.6.31 seem to be working without hangs in my case (not counting connection drops every once in a while). Sorry, for turning this upside down. Although, I've been way too busy with other important matters, I'll try to find the last "properly" working kernel by using the GIT kernel versions, so that I can be sure about the used versions. Unfortunately, this laptop is quite slow and the hang doesn't happen immediately (might take 1-2 days, but still it will always happen with newer versions of the ath9k drivers). Anyway, it's very good to know if these problems are more common among cards based on these chips or is this just a rare case. This particular card was sold as D-Link DWA-645. I'll report back after I've done some more testing in order to get more facts about different ath9k driver versions. Regards, Tomi Orava _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
