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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Cc: Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@apc.univ-paris7.fr>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:59:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208530774.10072.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40f31dec0804180751y3c4e0a9bj509324ae712081f3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:51 +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> 2008/4/18, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>:
> > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:51 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> >  > hi,
> >  > I have a 3-com PCCARD, with the AR5413 chipset
> >  > I installed 2 days ago compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2, on Ubuntu Gutsy,
> >  > and everything seemed to work.
> >  > I just had in the log 2 or 3 messages:
> >  >
> >  >     ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout
> >  >
> >  > but yesterday, when rebooting, I got a huge number of such messages(more
> >  > than 100 in the log file), with also
> >  >
> >  >     ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel
> >  >     ath0: failed to set freq to 2422 MHz for scan
> >  >     ath0: failed to restore operational channel after scan
> >
> >
> > I also get this all the time with a 5006E, and ath5k takes quite a lot
> >  (30%) of CPU most of the time.  Haven't tried to track it down yet.
> >  Anyone have ideas about the root cause of the problem?
> >
> >
> >  Dan
> >
> >  > and the boot froze. I then removed my PCCARD,
> >  > and after poweroff/poweron, I could boot normally.
> >  >
> >  > It seems to be fixed now, as I have no more this problem after
> >  > re-inserting the card.
> >  > But as I did nothing, I would like to know what might happen:
> >  > If this happened once, there is no reason why this would not happen an
> >  > other time.
> >  >
> >  > Pierre
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> 
> It seems that sometimes noise floor calibration takes longer than
> usual. I'll check it out and come up with a patch asap ;-)

Happy to test patches.  AR5413 802.11agb NIC (rev 01).  168c:001b,
subsys 10cf:1329.

Dan


      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-18 12:51 ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout Pierre Frenkiel
2008-04-18 13:56 ` Dan Williams
2008-04-18 14:51   ` Nick Kossifidis
2008-04-18 14:59     ` Dan Williams [this message]

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