I received this bug report on ath9k: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:39 +0200, Gunnar Stahl wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.38-3 > Severity: important > > Since linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 the wlan connections on this machine is 1) > slow to connection and 2) slows down to a crawl and 3) dies after some seconds > / mintes and becomes completely unusable. > > Connecting over standard eth0 makes no problems at all. Only the wlan is > affected. > > Booting the same machine again with linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 turns the wlan > back to normal again. [...] > 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 > Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01) > Subsystem: AzureWave Device [1a3b:1089] > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- > <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 > Region 0: Memory at feaf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: ath9k [...]
Further system details at <http://bugs.debian.org/622753>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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