From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:28:27 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Ath9k in funky state after adding 130 STA interfaces. In-Reply-To: <20101004172422.24699.qmail@stuge.se> References: <4CA81265.8030403@candelatech.com> <20101004170732.GH2105@tux> <4CAA0C54.5050106@candelatech.com> <20101004172422.24699.qmail@stuge.se> Message-ID: <20101004172827.GM2105@tux> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org 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