On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:42:35 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2012-03-07 7:37 PM, Paul Farrow wrote: >> >> On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:29:56 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>> On 2012-02-29 10:35 PM, Kim Lidström wrote: >>>> Hello! >>>> A while ago I had a situation where my AR9485 would lock up the >>>> kernel >>>> so bad and two very nice guys(Mohammed Shafi and Adrian.. Uhm.. >>>> Sorry I >>>> forgot his last name) were very patient in helping me and trying >>>> to >>>> debug it through patches, etc. Nothing worked. >>>> Eventually, though, I noticed that when I removed the atl1c module >>>> my >>>> wlan started working. "Awesome!" I thought... Until I noticed this >>>> other >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> Once in a while, seemingly at random, the wlan dies with the error >>>> messages in the title. And I can't possibly restore it without >>>> restarting the computer. >>>> >>>> With this message I have attached a log with the error messages. >>>> This has been a problem since.. Uhm.. Kernel 3.2.something and I'm >>>> currently running 3.2.8. >>>> For some reason it happened at least 3-4 times shortly after each >>>> other >>>> today - so I thought I might ask on here what's happening. >>> Please try this patch with powersave enabled, using a recent >>> compat-wireless build (3.3 or linux-next based): >>> http://nbd.name/ps-fix.patch >>> >>> - Felix >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ath9k-devel mailing list >>> ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org >>> https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel >> >> >> Hi Felix >> >> I would like to try your patch to see if it stops my Tx DMA errors >> on >> my AR9280 chipset pcie card. >> >> 1. Do you think it might work? >> 2. What is the best way to apply this patch? >> >> Please be gentle with me as I am linux hobbyist and I am keen to get >> my >> Tx DMA error problem sorted which I can recreate straight away every >> time. > If your Tx DMA issues are powersave related, this patch might help to > fix them. > > - Felix
At this stage I am unsure what the problems are but I know that I can recreate the TX DMA issue straight away, every time. If I wanted to apply the patch how do I go about doing that successfully as I am unsure how to do that. Thanks Paul _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
