From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Tackaberry Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:42:10 -0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k vs nvidia(proprietary) In-Reply-To: <49DA716C.6040904@gmail.com> References: <49D873BE.8050908@gmail.com> <1238989468.32736.23.camel@mj> <49DA62AC.7040102@gmail.com> <1239051432.15621.83.camel@mj> <49DA716C.6040904@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1239072130.13948.11.camel@willow> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:17 +0100, Dmitri Seletski wrote: > > It should not be a problem. You can try some workarounds, such as the > > "irqpoll" option on the kernel command line. > [...] > > Well, how can i help? I am not coder... I dont speak C ;) Dmitri, I'd be very curious to hear if booting with the irqpoll option helps your problem. The other day I was playing with a D-Link DWA-652 and whenever I started doing bulk transfers dmesg would show "received PCI FATAL interrupt" and the wireless connection would go dead. I noticed in /proc/interrupts that both ath9k and nvidia were using IRQ 16. However, as the nvidia binary driver is more important to me than the wireless card, and I didn't have very long to decide if I wanted to keep it, I decided to return the DWA-652. Thanks, Jason.