From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleksij Rempel Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:57:38 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Wonky ath9k behavior since kernel 4.4.x In-Reply-To: <1468178044.1714.0@smtp.gmail.com> References: <1468178044.1714.0@smtp.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5782A8B2.9010605@rempel-privat.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Am 10.07.2016 um 21:14 schrieb 2Ramona: > Hi, I don't know if you're aware of this behavior, but I'm surprised > it's not more of an issue. > > I have an Alfa 036NHA with an Atheros UB91C card. Wifi connects, races > for a little while, stalls to nothing, and then continues intermittently > after that fluctuating between slow and stalled. This behavior started > with an Arch Linux upgrade to linux 4.4.x and it persists through kernel > 4.6.2. When I downgrade to linux 4.3.x everything works great again. > Currently using kernel 4.3.6-1. > > I'm surprised more bug reports aren't circulating about this. The Alfa > 036NHA is a very popular usb wifi card, especially among war drivers, > and Arch is also a popular distro among the same crowd. I'd be happy to > provide any log outputs that would be helpful. I'm actually on a new > computer with a new installation of Manjaro, yet the exact same behavior > persists between kernel 4.3.x and all later kernels. > > To my thinking there must be something in the change logs to ath9k b/t > the last iteration of linux 4.3 and the first of 4.4. > > Thanks very much for any consideration and attention you could give this. > > Linuxista There was a bug added by me... this patch was fixing it: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=de478a61389cacafe94dc8b035081b681b878f9d please try lates kernel, may it was fixed by this patch... Beside, did you updated the firmware as well? -- Regards, Oleksij -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 213 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/attachments/20160710/bed103de/attachment.pgp