Return-path: Received: from nbd.name ([46.4.11.11]:51822 "EHLO nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851Ab2B0MHZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:07:25 -0500 Message-ID: <4F4B71F2.1020709@openwrt.org> (sfid-20120227_130729_182747_BE98FF6D) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:07:14 +0100 From: Felix Fietkau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Fries CC: Nick Kossifidis , ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com Subject: Re: ath5k phy0: gain calibration timeout References: <20120227031232.GA1190@spacedout.fries.net> In-Reply-To: <20120227031232.GA1190@spacedout.fries.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-02-27 4:12 AM, David Fries wrote: > Wireless network stopped working after 22 hours with ath5k, I have the > following message repeating, suspending to ram and back was enough to > get it talking again. > ath5k phy0: gain calibration timeout (2462MHz) > > I previously was running 3.2-rc5 for a month and a half straight > without any wireless issues, I just upgraded to 3.3-rc1, the message > started 22 hours after booting the newer kernel. This ath5k is > running hostapd 1:0.7.3-4 with WPA-EAP and had no clients for the 12 > hours before the calibration message started, and had no clients for > hours after until I tried to connect and found I couldn't. > While I was unable to connect, I flipped > the laptop rfkill switch and the gain calibration timeouts continued, > disabling rfkill and they still continued. That's when I did a > suspend to memory and resume and found it recovered. While it was > working I tried rfkill and it no longer was talking after disabling > rfkill, I thought it was resuming previously, but I don't use that > very often. > > I revered the following two comments and will see if I run into any > more problems. I can test patches. > ath5k: We always do full calibration on AR5210 > dafae6af0336958e9e2eb67cc5e4e31d6d13b308 > ath5k: Calibration re-work > ce169aca0d823d38465127023e3d571816e6666c Please try applying the following two patches: http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi?p=openwrt.git;a=blob_plain;f=package/mac80211/patches/440-ath5k_calibrate_no_queue_stop.patch;hb=HEAD http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi?p=openwrt.git;a=blob_plain;f=package/mac80211/patches/441-ath5k_no_agc_recalibration.patch;hb=HEAD - Felix