Return-path: Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:55537 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750939AbZELXqo (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 19:46:44 -0400 Received: from public by hugh.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M41LT-0001Zp-18 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 01:25:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4A089E49.7080403@gmail.com> <20090512103905.0D68E1FD10@chi.die-welt.net> <20090512174636.8EBDA1FD10@chi.die-welt.net> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:01:07 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890905121601y59de3d3fh9eca4637883c37fa@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro To: Justin Mattock , Johannes Berg Cc: Evgeni Golov , Jiri Slaby , Justin Mattock , Linux Kernel Mailing List , public-ath9k-devel-xDcbHBWguxHbcTqmT+pZeQ@hugh.gmane.org, public-linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@hugh.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Justin Mattock wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Evgeni Golov wrote: >> On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:28:04 -0700 Justin Mattock wrote: >> >>> > Same here with 2.6.30-rc4, b43 and either Cisco (MAC-Addr starts with >>> > 00:40:96) or HP ProCurve (??? - they do WiFi? - MAC-Addr starts with >>> > 00:1F:FE) APs. No encryption, quite noisy environment (University). >>> > >>> > No problem with ipw2200 (actually 2915) in the same hardware (Thinkpad >>> > X31). Neither with the b43 and a standard Linksys WRT54GL (in the same! >>> > noisy university-env). >>> > >>> > Regards >>> > Evgeni >>> > >>> > >>> >>> are you able to connect? >>> (or is the connection connecting but really >>> poor quality?) >>> over here 2.6.29-rc8 connects like >>> theirs no tomorrow, as soon as >>> I throw in 2.6.30-rc4 it just dead(although >>> on some accounts I did get some kind of >>> reaction, but not much, just what I see in dmesg). >> >> 2.6.29: fairly stable, even if not as good as with an intel card. >> 2.6.30-rc4: tons of timeouts, may connect 1 in 100 tries, connection >> will drop after some (short) time. >> >> -- >> Bruce Schneier Fact Number 79: >> Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits. >> > > O.K. after trial and error reverting this: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8;hp=853da11b94e674445e93660f47a5f0aeeea09623 > > brings life back to the macbook with 2.6.30-rc4 > (not sure about the iphone anomaly though, I'll keep > an eye on that) Odd.. are you changing TX power through wext? Because that 47afbaf5 should only make a difference when using manual tx power setting. Luis