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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:53:18 +0300
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Subject: Re: ath5k connection loss (failed to wakeup the MAC Chip)
From: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
To: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
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2009/7/28 Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>:
> Heyho!
>
> (This is using kernel 2.6.31-rc3 as packaged by Debian)
>
> While taking a full backup of my laptop, I noticed that after a few 100M the
> ath5k can't connect to WLAN anymore.
>

[...]

> This only happens with bulk data transfers, and probably only when sending.
> Downloading large dataset over WLAN is fine (I haven't tested it as much as
> sending, though: downloads are mostly small, while the bulk sending happens
> regularly during backup.)
>
> It is not related to how long the WLAN is up: I can work for days or weeks
> (happened with earlier kernels as well) with this laptop, over
> suspend/resume, and WLAN works fine.  It's only when I run backup that it
> happens (always - but I since backups usually are incremental, they're often
> small enough.  But once I do a full backup WLAN goes down.  So use cable for
> those...)
>
> Is this known?  Can I get you more information?
>
> Hardware is Acer AOA 150.
>
> thanks

Working on it, can you please post the part when ath5k loads ?


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