[ath9k-devel] Ath9k in funky state after adding 130 STA interfaces.

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

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:24:21AM -0700, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
> > I was hoping the 'deadbeef' registers indicated a particular error
> > in the NIC that I might could use for further debugging.
> 
> I'd guess it's a general error rather than something specific. I get
> it on most boots and the driver needs some jerking around before the
> card will start working. Sometimes it doesn't matter what I do and
> power cycle is all that seems to help. I haven't spent much time on
> thorough research yet though, in part because there's so little
> response here. :\

yeah the deadbeef stuff typically is a misprogramming on the
driver to not wake the chip up for a read/write operation.
We have a lot of fixes for this over the last few kernels
and if you using 2.6.35 chances are a few fixes may not
have trickled down yet. For development purposes you are
best to use the latest always.

  Luis