From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
To: Nick Thomas <nhomas@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k] Recent driver versions break compatibility with AR9285 for me
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:00:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20790.61609.875201.57288@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEk6VBHTWn8CX7SKNVQz+T+Wqwe9Na=32Lz=+xOdqncNZFhhkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Nick Thomas wrote:
> The latter iwconfig readout is from an old kernel version (3.2.39),
> where the card does indeed work. What I wish to report is that in a
> more recent kernel version (3.7.10), the card doesn't work (iwconfig
> says "no wireless extensions"). It's not a problem for me (I'm happily
> using the old kernel), but I thought it was worth reporting.
Ah, ok.
> Some Googling tells me that a number of people have run into similar
> problems (kernel versions >=3.3 breaking their AR928X cards). Maybe
> you guys have been made aware of this?
That issue was fixed a long time by reverting the problematic commit.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c
3.7.x shouldn't be affected by that issue. Can you post the kernel log ?
Sujith
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-06 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 5:42 [ath9k] Recent driver versions break compatibility with AR9285 for me Nick Thomas
2013-03-06 6:03 ` Sujith Manoharan
2013-03-06 7:00 ` Nick Thomas
2013-03-06 7:30 ` Sujith Manoharan [this message]
2013-03-06 14:03 ` Kalle Valo
2013-03-06 20:32 ` Nick Thomas
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