Also, is there a kernel.org bugzilla report entry for this? I'll
update it with the relevant information so the regression isn't
forgotten about.

Thanks,


Adrian

On 11 June 2011 15:12, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> ok. Mohammed, APSM is broken in a different way on some laptops. maybe
> the state transition between sleep states is different somehow.
>
> Which model notebook is this Camilo? :)
>
>
> adrian
>
> On 11 June 2011 14:42, Camilo Mesias <cam...@mesias.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 11 June 2011 02:47, Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> Let's just try the patch I emailed you to apply to wireless-testing.
>>>>> Hopefully that restores functionality enough and we can punt it to the
>>>>> Atheros guys to do some further investigation.
>>>>
>>>> That change seems to have fixed it! I've managed at least 3
>>>> suspend/resumes and an rmmod/modprobe without crashing. Perhaps a little
>>>> early to say it's definitely fixed, but I don't think I've ever managed
>>>> more than 2 attempts in a row without a "bad" version crashing.
>>>
>>> Excellent! Let's see if it fixes it for other users.
>>> Camilo? :)
>>
>> I had some problems with the wireless-testing software but managed to
>> rebuild the current kernel from source (2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686) then
>> commented out the relevant driver part and changed the
>> AR9285_WA_DEFAULT value too. I made sure I was running the rebuilt
>> modules and... it works. I suspended and resumed just fine.
>>
>> I'm not sure how I can quickly get a clean fix, I think this might be
>> tweakable with the patch:
>>
>> http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compact_wireless.html
>>
>> Or I could just stay on my bodged kernel for a while (although this
>> doesn't help anyone else)
>>
>> Thanks for all the help, it looks like my netbook is useful again :D
>>
>> -Cam
>>
>
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