From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:10:11 -0800 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k deadbeef In-Reply-To: <20110107235347.16038.qmail@stuge.se> References: <4D274C6A.8010602@candelatech.com> <20110107180549.2137.qmail@stuge.se> <4D275845.704@candelatech.com> <20110107235347.16038.qmail@stuge.se> Message-ID: <4D27AB63.1060302@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 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 -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com