Hi, I have the same hardware and the same fault, I don't think it's faulty hardware. My tale of woe is reported here too.
Currently I'm trying to shoehorn an Intel based wifi card into the machine but there is a BIOS whitelist in the way. There is a tweaked BIOS where the whitelist is disabled, but reflashing the BIOS from Linux is difficult / impossible, it seems. I'm doing this because a git bisect of the driver since when it worked isn't an attractive option. This is a reproducible problem though, maybe not reported by many people but very real. Even a simple rmmod will lock up the machine. Commands like ifconfig X down / iwconfig X tx off / rmmod don't help either. Where I first reported my problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697157 Reported on this list: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath9k.devel/6237 -Cam On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> wrote: >> > [Recap: my Compaq/HP 311c Mini netbook with AR9285 locks up when the >> > wifi connection is shut down for any reason, since kernel 2.6.35] > > I think if you can't reproduce it and nobody else has complained I might > have a hardware fault. It looks like it's possible to replace the wifi > unit, is there any you recommend? Apparently the same device is > responsible for Bluetooth too and I would like to keep that > functionality. > > I'm puzzled about why the driver works without the changes that > supposedly introduced support for AR9285. Does the older version use a > sort of generic 9k driver and the later version introduces specific > support for certain features of the AR9285? Is there any way I can force > an up-to-date kernel to use this generic mode? > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
