[ath9k-devel] ath9k deadbeef

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 01/07/2011 03:53 PM, Peter Stuge wrote:

>> Also, can you try that same NIC in different hardware?
>
> Not without remodeling my environment a bit, repurposing the current
> access point. I'd like to avoid changing that parameter.
>
> But I have replaced the mainboard in this ThinkPad X40 during the
> last year, and had issues both with old and new mainboard.
>
>
>> What NIC are you using?
>
> An AR9280 Mini PCI card. Previously I was using an Apple AR5008
> (AR5414) Mini PCI card which was much more problematic in some ways,
> but on the other hand I can't recall that it ever failed to answer on
> the PCI bus so that Linux would disregard it in the system.

What vendor & model?

Some PCI issues like this can be exacerbated by BIOS and/or motherboard chipsets,
so if you could put it in a different server, that might be interesting.
There are adapter cards to make mini-pci adapters work in regular
PCI slots, for instance.

Thanks,
Ben

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