[ath9k-devel] still same problem

[W. van den Akker <listsrv@wilsoft.nl>]

On Sunday 04 January 2009 10:58:02 Jens Ott - Opteamax wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Barry Green <barry@lemonpi.net> wrote:
> > [...]
> > We need an oops trace of your crashes so far it seems you have not
> > been able to get one, lets work on that. Until then it is not easy for
> > us to provide you with patches to fix your issues.
>
> I also have similar problems with an D-LINK DWA-547 and I'd really like
> to provide the oops trace, but unfortunately the machine seems to hang
> that fast, that even no oops trace is shown. Also magic-sysreq don't
> work anymore, neither via serial console nor via keyboard. Only chance I
> have in this moment is to press reset-button, which already caused a
> full xfs-filsystem-corruption with dataloss once :-(
>
> My problem is, that the hang happens not immediately after loading the
> driver but "somewhen" while it is loaded.
>
> I have seen two types of crash:
>
> 1.) first investigations on my side seem to show that it happens, as
> soon as there is high dataload transfered, but I don't have detailed
> info yet.
> 2.) Running hostapd works fine while started first time, but no client
> is connected. When a client connects a system freeze occures
> "sometimes". Reproducably the system freezes immediately when starting
> hostapd, stop it and then restart hostapd. So every change in hostapd
> conf needs a full reboot, unloading the ath9k module and reload it does
> not prevent freeze, but after reboot I can start hostapd once without a
> problem (only the metioned "sometime" freezes on client connect or high
> data-volume).
>
> As this machine is productive, I suspended testing for now. I will
> change the card into a non-productive environment in the next days. As
> soon as I find more details, I'll report.
>
> > Please test with the latest drivers from
> > wireless-testing/compat-wireless and restart in single user mode, we
> > want to ensure X is not running at all and you are in a virtual
> > terminal. We also do not want Network Manager or wpa_supplicant
> > running in the background. To increase the resolution upon bootup try
> > booting with vga=ask (vga=791 works well for me), then try to
> > associate to your access point without encryption manually using
> > iwconfig.
>
> Ok, that'll be a thing I'd need to test to, as in my case wpa_supplicant
> is running.
>

Hi,

What is the status of your problem? I still have problems with it and have no
progress...

gr,
Willem

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