From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?U3VuZSBNw7hsZ2FhcmQ=?= Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:36:42 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k flaky in 3.6(.x) In-Reply-To: <20121014184429.2967.qmail@stuge.se> References: <5079A670.4020202@molgaard.org> <20121014184429.2967.qmail@stuge.se> Message-ID: <507DC55A.1060507@molgaard.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Peter Stuge wrote: > Sune M?lgaard wrote: >> I'm hoping for someone to say "this is a known problem - we are >> working on it" > > Forget it. You will also not really get any help with debugging. If > you can find, and ideally prove, a regression then developers will > likely look into the problem. > > If you perceive and can demonstrate a problem, and complain loudly, > then developers will attempt to reproduce the problem in a lab, but > that is of course absolutely useless. Behaviour seems erratic, but without any clear cause - have temporarily switched to USB dongle that I remembered I had lying around... >> 08:01.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. >> AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) > > This is quite old hardware by now. The driver is supposed to work > well also with this hardware, but in practise it has never for me. > > I have a feeling that the AR922x PCI silicon is not so great, and > that it causes some of the problems. Perhaps the driver could work > around them, but I'm not sure if it does. That could very well be true. Would you happen to know a resource for finding consumer-level hardware with specific (new) chips? > > When dealing with this kernel driver your best chances at any kind of > success is to use the hardware that developers currently work on. > Those code paths are actively tested, improved, and debugged. Of > course there is a small complication here; since the developers work > on the driver before the hardware is made available on the market. > > At the moment I would not use anything older than AR9380 with the > ath9k driver. > > > I would suggest that you give FreeBSD a go on your laptop. Adrian is > the author of that driver, it is not a copypaste of the ath9k, so it > may work better or simply differently. I believe it supports your > card. You obviously have to be open to trying out FreeBSD for that. I'm not opposed to FreeBSD per se, but I do like me my Linux, so if you, or anyone else can answer my questions above, I'll buy a newer card. > > > //Peter > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > Thank you for answering. Best regards, Sune M?lgaard -- No trees were harmed in the transmission of this email but trillions of electrons were excited to participate.