[ath9k-devel] ath9k randomly fails and stops working until I reboot

[Quinn Strahl <nymthecat@gmail.com>]

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.

Thanks for the help.
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