On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:24:57AM -0800, Tomi Orava wrote: > 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.
You'll want to read: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Fix_Propagation That should get you to test and report against the right thing. Luis _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
