[ath9k-devel] still same problem

[Jens Ott - Opteamax <jo@opteamax.de>]

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.

Best regards
Jens

> 
> If there is an oops it should hopefully come up.
> 
>   Luis
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