[ath9k-devel] ath9k constantly drops network connection

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> Thanks for the patch.  The patch did not apply, I got all rejected
> hunks when I applied it to the source
> compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
> 
> Here are the error messages:
> Bordeaux >  patch -p1 < connectivity.patch
> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 976.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h.rej
> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 204.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 1505
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c.rej
> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 239.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c.rej
> 
> When I looked at the source, I could see that the patch could not work
> since the line numbers are not right. I even tried it on a freshly
> downloaded source from
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2

Ah, well it seems we need to update ath9k on compat-wireless-old again.
You can try to replace the ath9k directory from compat-wireless (note,
not -old) with the onto compat-wireless-old and see if that compiles.
If it doesn't compile then you need to do some backport work on that
ath9k files to get it to compile on older kernels.

  Luis