From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Pronath Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:01:21 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-547 completely freezes system In-Reply-To: References: <4B6080A9.6080202@gmx.de> <1264628837.19648.16.camel@mj> Message-ID: <4B61FB21.7080003@gmx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org on 01/28/2010 07:23 PM Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote: > (...) > >>> I just booted from a 32bit Ubuntu 9.10 CD; then it works and doesn't >>> freeze. So I assume it's a problem with the ath9k driver specifically in >>> the 64bit kernel. Now I'll replace my 64bit installation with the 32bit >>> one, as I have no reason to run 64bit Linux anyway. >>> >> Well, it may be a different problem, as the initialization was wrong on >> 32-bit kernels too. But I cannot be sure that incorrect initialization >> would prevent the card from working every time. >> >> > Yes, indeed, I was hit by this bug in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions > of Ubuntu (and Fedora if I don't misremember). > Michael, if I may ask, which version of Windows do you run? I was > testing this card with Windows 7 64-bit for comparison, and the card > brought down the system in much the same was as it brought down Ubuntu > for me. > > Regards, > K. OK. I just wondered why it always crashed in 64bit Linux, and never crashed in 32bit Linux on my system. I used Windows XP Home 32bit. It worked there. Regards, Michael