Re: ath5k connection loss (failed to wakeup the MAC Chip)

[Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>]

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Hi,

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 01.53:18 Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>:
> > Heyho!
> >
> > (This is using kernel 2.6.31-rc3 as packaged by Debian)
> >
> > While taking a full backup of my laptop, I noticed that after a few
> > 100M the ath5k can't connect to WLAN anymore.
>
> Working on it, can you please post the part when ath5k loads ?

$ dmesg | grep -5 ath5
[   10.837434] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   10.837444] USB Video Class driver (v0.1.0)                  
[   11.058396] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xa40000                                                                      
[   11.100259] ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded                                         
[   11.116172] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input3                                                                 
[   11.152799] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   11.152843] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   11.152938] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   11.160210] acer-wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras   
[   11.160218] acer-wmi: Blacklisted hardware detected - not loading
[   11.227537] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x65                          
[   11.227546] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[   11.227557] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00                         
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[   13.449969] ACPI: Video Device [OVGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: yes  post: no)
[   13.500020] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -353758420 ns)               
[   13.602489] ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)                              
[   13.602714] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input7                                                                      
[   13.872882] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'                 
[   13.875055] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[   13.875106] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[   13.875116] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[   14.047189] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16                                                                               
[   14.047271] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64              
[   14.160144] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]                                          
[   14.160386] input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input8                                                                    
[   14.160502] ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]                                        

(btw, in my case the laptop probably went through suspend to ram/resume 
before I started the backup.  Don't know if that has any influence.)

cheers
-- vbi

cheers
-- vbi

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