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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:53:55 +0100
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Subject: ath9k: Connection over wlan slows down and dies
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I received this bug report on ath9k:

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:39 +0200, Gunnar Stahl wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.38-3
> Severity: important
>=20
> Since linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64 the wlan connections on this machine is =
1)
> slow to connection and 2) slows down to a crawl and 3) dies after some se=
conds
> / mintes and becomes completely unusable.
>=20
> Connecting over standard eth0 makes no problems at all. Only the wlan is
> affected.
>=20
> Booting the same machine again with linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 turns the =
wlan
> back to normal again.
[...]
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wir=
eless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
> 	Subsystem: AzureWave Device [1a3b:1089]
> 	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step=
ping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> 	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=3Dfast >TAbort- <TAbort=
- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> 	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
> 	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
> 	Region 0: Memory at feaf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=3D64K]
> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
> 	Kernel driver in use: ath9k
[...]

Further system details at <http://bugs.debian.org/622753>.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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