Hello!

I was advised by lwfinger on the opensuse-forums to send the attached 
dmesg output to this email address.

The troublesome device as seen by lusb:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:1002 Atheros Communications, Inc. TP-Link 
TL-WN821N v2 [Atheros AR9001U-(2)NG]


This USB WLAN Stick worked fine for several months with Suse11.3 out of 
the box, but upon upgrading to Suse11.4, it was not even recognized any 
more. Following advice on the opensuse-forums (installing 
compat-wireless and carl9170), the device is now recognized and works, 
but the connection is very slow and breaks down after a minute of data 
transfer (but the connection can often be restored again by the 
networkmanager). The other end of the WLAN, a D-Link DIR-655 router, 
remains unchanged and works fine with several other WLAN devices.

The dmesg.out was taken after: booting, then using the USB WLAN Stick to 
browse the net, which caused the connection to drop, networkmanager 
reconnecting, browsing, dropping again and eventually connecting the 
machine to the net by Ethernet via a WLAN-Bridge device.

Please let me know if this is of any use or whether I can provide any 
other information or do some testing to improve the carl9170 driver.


Thanks,
  Steffen Jost.