Hi, I'm trying that patch on debian amd64 with 2.6.39 kernel from repos, manually applied against latest compat-wireless, and so far it seems to work :)
I've been able to connect to a network, where before the patch just bringing the interface up would have frozen the OS. 2011/6/11 Camilo Mesias <cam...@mesias.co.uk> > Hi, > > As a side issue, I remember trying pcie_aspm=off as a boot parameter > and interestingly the output of lspci seemed to show it wasn't > disabled in all entries. Is this a bug? Should ath9k in particular > honour this boot option? > > [root@newt ~]# lspci -vvv|egrep '^[0-9]|ASPM' > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1) > 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1) > 00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b3) > 00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1) > 00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1) > 00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1) > 00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1) > 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) > 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 > Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) > 00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) > 00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 > Controller (rev b1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) > 00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev > b1) > 00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1) > (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) > 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1) > 00:0b.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 AHCI Controller (rev > b1) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) > 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev > b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > 00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev > b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > LnkCap: Port #3, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency > L0 > <512ns, L1 <4us > LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- > CommClk- > ^^^ enabled here? > > 00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev > b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > LnkCap: Port #4, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, > Latency L0 > <512ns, L1 <4us > LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- > CommClk- > ^^^ disabled here, good > > 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION LE VGA (rev > b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 > Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) > LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, > Latency L0 > <512ns, L1 <64us > LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- > CommClk- > ^^^ not disabled for ath9k, bug? > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > -- *Adrià Cereto Massagué* Biotechnology student Universitat Rovira i Virgili Languages: Català, Español, English, Français, Deutsch, Português, Esperanto Nota importante <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html>| Important Notice <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html>
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