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[<bogus@does.not.exist.com>]

required. You can think of my previous phrase as possible feature
request, or a question of "how to?" type. I know that borh SLI nvidia
cards are sharing IRQ 16 as well as atheros based dlink wireless card.
(if it's not difficult, please look into my previous emails, they will
have dmesg and lspci -vv details, otherwise just ask me for more
details, i shall provide them)
>>  Obviously, there is not much point of asking Nvidia to do it, since
>> those behemoth's won't do anything for sure, since their current driver
>> (i dont use it for that matter)release is pretty banged up...
>>     
>
> If you do most of the work finding how to work around the problem, and
> it turns out that something could be improved in free software, then
> maybe your patch will be applied.
>
> If you expect others to question you about the symptoms, then suggest
> patches and push them to the kernel, that's not going to happen.
>   
Symptoms are simple with nvidia module and ath9k loaded at the same time
connection degrades over short period of time and after several minutes
disappears all together. I suspect it could be IRQ sharing or other I/O
or similar hardware conflict, since both of them work pretty well while
other devices driver is not loaded. no unusual messages in dmesg.
Machine may hang and even if in terminal(not in X), machine hangs
completely without providing a bit of information, not even oops message.
>   
>> Another question, my Access Point and PCI wifi card are from same
>> manufacturer. AP is set to B,G,N auto mode, but my card only connects to
>> it using G mode, which is not why i bought it in the first place. Why is
>> this happening? i am pretty much only user to network myself 99% of
>> time. i tried to force it to use N mode, it could detect it, but it
>> couldn't connect.
>>     
>
> I suggest that you actually show what commands you run and what they
> return, not just your interpretation.
>
> In case you are hitting the stuck scan bug, try setting the channel with
> iwconfig instead of loading and unloading modules.
>
>   
Commands are simple as well.
ip link set wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid dlink
they don't give any errors and don't show any unusual messages in dmesg

thats pretty much it. (no wireless security used at all)

N.B.
What i really don't want is any kind of aggression towards to me.
Coding something for a community, even advanced one requires certain
amount of tolerance, as ANY normal communication.
I am not perfect tester(i just attempt to become better one), i
understand that, but i am not coming after difficult day, working with
difficult people to submit difficult issues(which other people may
prefer to ignore all together or for those reasons abandon Linux and go
to MS products, i have seeing enough of those). I am not going to become
more enthusiastic by being referred to "RTFM noob" like documents, who
nearly imply my stupidity.
So far I was very happy in this list, and even my lack of technical
knowledge did not spoil my attitude towards this list. I want it to stay
that way. Ignoring problems of people who lack technical knowledge on
matter is path to nowhere. I seriously, don't want to start flame wars,
i am not naive and I don't ask for apologies. I just ask one thing,
please be tolerant, everyone can have a shi*** day, that includes you
and me!

Dmitri