Return-path: Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:45791 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752592Ab1LOFsX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:48:23 -0500 Received: by vcbfk14 with SMTP id fk14so1243356vcb.19 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:48:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:18:22 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20111215_064826_511188_C6013E0B) Subject: Re: wierless hardware using ath9k driver on AP mode leads to kernel panic From: Mohammed Shafi To: Ashwin Mendonca Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Ashwin Mendonca wrote: > I can enable AP mode on my netbook. But when I turn on a wireless > client device, then the sytem on AP mode freezes. It has happened > since 2.3.38. When I installaed ath9k driver compiled from > compat-wireless on linux 2.3.38, the issue got disappered. But the > ath9k driver packed with the kernel still has the issue. On Ubuntu > 11.10, all linux 3.0 releases (the current stable release ?Ubuntu > 3.0.14) have the issue. I compiled 3.1.5 stable kernel from sources, > which also has the issue. I recently compiled > compat-wireless-3.2-rc1-1, which also got my system frozen. This is > the bug that I filled at Launchpad: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/875503 some time back the STA mode itself had this issue, but was fixed by https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/12/269 could you please let us know whether this issue happens in http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Where_to_download_bleeding_edge i just tried to put AR2427 in AP mode and then connected a STA, did not seem to cause any issue in 3.2.0-rc5-wl. please also post your hostapd.conf and your hostapd --version > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- shafi