I'm running: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 31 00:54:51 CET 2005 i386
The card is (Netgear WG311T): ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xe7000000-0xe700ffff irq 9 at device 15.0 on pci0
After about 73 minutes uptime my PC is busy processing interrupts. Top shows 90% in IRQ. Everything is slowed down. Earlier kernels showed same effect.
When the problem appears, I start "ifconfig ath0 down" then "ifconfig ath0 up" and everything is ok again for a certain period of time.
Further info: IRQ 9 is being shared with ACPI (I tried to turn off ACPI, no effect). Earlier it was shared with my VGA-card, but showed exactly the same symptoms.
The high interrupt load is not being reported like e.g. an interrupt storm on lpt. The system is simply slowed down.
This is a known problem in the ath driver in stable that should be fixed in current. I expect you are operating 11g. Unfortunately backporting the necessary changes is very hard and not something I intend to do.
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