From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Thiel Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:37:16 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ar9281 In-Reply-To: <20081202202222.GA22707@tuxdriver.com> References: <1228151600.23262.55.camel@ungoliant.gsptech.fedex.com> <43e72e890812010925x192f1f22laefc2f679ee4e4aa@mail.gmail.com> <20081202202222.GA22707@tuxdriver.com> Message-ID: <20081202203716.GA29964@kki.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:22:22PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:25:33AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Pat O'Neil wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > > > > > I've got a recent toshiba qosmio laptop, 64bit that has an ar9281 > > > chipset that was "almost" working under F9, as after downloading the > > > wireless git and compiling I could get it to come up and associate, but > > > the performance was extremely slow, with ping times of 10's of seconds, > > > etc. I also sometimes got the aforementioned "No ProbeResp from current > > > AP ... - assume out of range" error. > > > > > > Since then I've loaded Fedora 10, and have hit a new snag with its > > > bundled version of ath9k, as in the dmesg log I see the following: > > > > > > ...snip... > > > > > > ath9k: 0.1 > > > ath_pci: software IOTLB in use, aborting. > > > > > > ...snip... > > > > Fedora 10 kernel is broken as a workaround to a kernel bug in ath9k > > they decided to disable ath9k when the swiotbl is used due to a bug > > that *we actually did fix*. They should fix their kernel. They may > > have an updated kernel you may want to check. > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 > > Not quite that simple. Those patches as written don't apply to 2.6.27, > and F10 won't be on 2.6.28 for quite some time (since 2.6.28 has yet > to be released). > > Now, if you know of 2.6.27 versions of those patches... :-) Check out http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/patches/ath9k/2008-11-22/27-IOMMU-01/ I hope we'll get them included in one of the next -stable kernels. Best, Christoph