On 2020-08-05 18:01 +0100, Hilary Snaden wrote: > Following the recent discussion about Atheros AR9271 wifi no longer working. > > After the most recent kernel update to 5.7.10-1 (2020-07-26), my > AR9271 wifi dongle is recognised again, but there is now a worse > problem: if I use the dongle, the box gradually freezes over the > course of around 5 to 20 minutes, starting with network manager. If I > unplug the dongle before the freeze spreads, the box unfreezes, else > it requires a power cycle to revive it. > > The internal wifi still works normally. > > The only obvious error message relates to iwl-debug-yoyo.bin not being > found. > > Can anyone confirm that ath9k_htc was fixed from kernel 5.7.9? The > kernel mailing list is ambiguous about whether the fix would be in > 5.7.11 or whether it appeared in 5.7.9.
I don't know anything about ath9k_htc, but the latest fixes for it appeared in 5.7.11 ("ath9k: Fix general protection fault in ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb"[1] and "ath9k: Fix regression with Atheros 9271"[2]), so they are not in Debian yet. Cheers, Sven 1. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.7.y&id=b43063ff55858f73cbd44fc4496b3489c8bdfba4 2. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.7.y&id=dcb80ffe3825fb551a293491424695198b2e397d