Return-path: Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:37078 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755128AbZELW1j (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 18:27:39 -0400 Received: from public by hugh.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M3zTL-0000Fh-1t for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 23:25:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090512174636.8EBDA1FD10@chi.die-welt.net> References: <4A089E49.7080403@gmail.com> <20090512103905.0D68E1FD10@chi.die-welt.net> <20090512174636.8EBDA1FD10@chi.die-welt.net> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:04:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro From: Justin Mattock To: Evgeni Golov Cc: 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=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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) -- Justin P. Mattock