Return-path: Received: from mail81.extendcp.co.uk ([79.170.40.81]:53406 "EHLO mail81.extendcp.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757666Ab1CONTA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:19:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:19:07 +0000 From: Tony Houghton To: Mohammed Shafi Cc: linux-wireless Subject: Re: Could ath9k and rt2800pci bugs be related? Message-ID: <20110315131907.6f06a221@toddler> In-Reply-To: References: <20110224182022.57e32862@toddler> <20110224200203.GB17412@elie> <20110314164812.4c0cfc29@toddler> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:17:40 +0530 Mohammed Shafi wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: > > > > 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. > > can you please check by disabling the supicious rt modules and see > whether this problems happens. Yes, I did blacklist rt2800pci and the system works correctly without the module loaded. Even the wireless connection still works. > for quick check please try with the latest compat wireless. How do I do that? I would also be willing to add extra debugging messages to ath9k to help track down the AR9285 problem. I'm a C programmer, but not a kernel hacker so I think I would need some advice about which functions to examine.