linux-kernel - Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro

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Message-ID: <43e72e890905121601y59de3d3fh9eca4637883c37fa@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 16:01:07 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Evgeni Golov <sargentd@...-welt.net>,
	Jiri Slaby 
	<public-jirislaby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@...h.gmane.org>,
	Justin Mattock 
	<public-justinmattock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@...h.gmane.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List 
	<public-linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@...h.gmane.org>,
	public-ath9k-devel-xDcbHBWguxHbcTqmT+pZeQ@...h.gmane.org,
	public-linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@...h.gmane.org
Subject: Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro



On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Evgeni Golov <sargentd@...-welt.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:28:04 -0700 Justin Mattock wrote:
>>
>>> > Same here with 2.6.30-rc4, b43 and either Cisco (MAC-Addr starts with
>>> > 00:40:96) or HP ProCurve (??? - they do WiFi? - MAC-Addr starts with
>>> > 00:1F:FE) APs. No encryption, quite noisy environment (University).
>>> >
>>> > No problem with ipw2200 (actually 2915) in the same hardware (Thinkpad
>>> > X31). Neither with the b43 and a standard Linksys WRT54GL (in the same!
>>> > noisy university-env).
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> > Evgeni
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> are you able to connect?
>>> (or is the connection connecting but really
>>> poor quality?)
>>> over here 2.6.29-rc8 connects like
>>> theirs no tomorrow, as soon as
>>> I throw in 2.6.30-rc4 it just dead(although
>>> on some accounts I did get some kind of
>>> reaction, but not much, just what I see in dmesg).
>>
>> 2.6.29: fairly stable, even if not as good as with an intel card.
>> 2.6.30-rc4: tons of timeouts, may connect 1 in 100 tries, connection
>> will drop after some (short) time.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Schneier Fact Number 79:
>> Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
>>
>
> O.K. after trial and error reverting this:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8;hp=853da11b94e674445e93660f47a5f0aeeea09623
>
> brings life back to the macbook with 2.6.30-rc4
> (not sure about the iphone anomaly though, I'll keep
> an eye on that)

Odd.. are you changing TX power through wext? Because that 47afbaf5
should only make a difference when using manual tx power setting.

  Luis

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