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Subject: Re: Could ath9k and rt2800pci bugs be related?
From: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
To: Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
> [I am no longer subscribed to the list so please Cc me]
>
> I'm the person who reported that my system kept freezing when shutting
> down my AR9285 wireless with kernel 2.6.35 or newer.
>
> I've just bought an Acer Aspire Revo 3700 and this had very similar
> symptoms with a different adapter. Luckily another customer had posted
> about it on the vendor's website and his fix works for me. The fix is to
> blacklist the rt2800pci module and the rt2860sta driver seems to work
> quite happily without it.
>
> It looks as if rt2800pci was introduced somewhere between 2.6.32 and
> 2.6.34 and I experienced the crashes with 2.6.35 (Mint 10/Ubuntu 10.10)
> and 2.6.37 (Debian unstable), but not with 2.6.32 (Debian squeeze) which
> doesn't have that module.

can you please check by disabling the supicious rt modules and see
whether this problems happens.
for quick check please try with the latest compat wireless.

>
> It's probably just coincidence, but I was struck by how similar the
> symptoms are and wondered whether these different drivers have anything
> in common?
>
> lspci output:
>
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3090]
> ? ? ? ?Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6622]
> ? ? ? ?Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> ? ? ? ?Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> ? ? ? ?Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
> ? ? ? ?Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
> ? ? ? ?Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
> ? ? ? ?Capabilities: <access denied>
> ? ? ? ?Kernel driver in use: rt2860
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