From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:38:49 -0800 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k randomly fails and stops working until I reboot In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4CE41329.9020405@candelatech.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On 11/17/2010 08:17 AM, Quinn Strahl wrote: > Occasionally I lose my wireless connection to my router, and am unable > to renew it - furthermore, attempts to bring down and back up the > wireless interface via ifconfig results in a message: > > "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error". > > If I try to bring it back up again, it comes up without error - but > scanning for or trying to associate with my router produces results as > though the router was not there - I can confirm that it's there because > other computers are connected to it and not losing their connections. It > continues to not work until I reboot the computer. > > I'm running Gentoo 2.6.36-r1, the card is an Atheros AR9285 in an Asus > Eee PC 1000HE, running on the ath9k driver, built-in to the kernel. > Using the latest drivers from compat-wireless made no discernible > difference. > > The output of "lspci -nnk" and "dmesg | grep ath" are attached. Your dmesg output looks similar to what I have been hitting with multiple STAs associating rapidly. How reproducible is the problem in your setup? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com