Ath9 regression in latest kernel?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 21:50:37 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:57 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Monday 07 December 2009 15:24:59 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Since I updated to kernel-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686 on my EeePC 1000
> > netbook, Wifi has become so unreliable as to be virtually unusable. <snip> .
> > 
> > The chipset is an AR928x. Had anyone else seen this? I'll BZ if
> > necessary.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yes, I also asked this problem on this list last week. For your reference, 
> this is the thread:
> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-list&m=125988446000571&w=2
> 
> Also, I observe that this workaround mentioned in one of bug reports (see 
> below)  *seem* to give me better / more usable networking: 
> "iwconfig wlan0 power off"
> YMMV.

I did try that before backing out to the earlier kernel. It didn't seem
to make any difference at all.

> Here are several bug reports I bookmarked:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13807
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14267
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532465
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520535
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541756

I'll take a look, thanks.

poc




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