Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:47931 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755807Ab2BBL2Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 06:28:25 -0500 Received: by vbjk17 with SMTP id k17so1685755vbj.19 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:28:24 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120202042521.GA20635@ubuntu-macmini> References: <20120202042521.GA20635@ubuntu-macmini> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:58:23 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20120202_122828_705406_89552916) Subject: Re: CTS timeout issue with AR9285 From: Mohammed Shafi To: Seth Forshee Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jouni Malinen , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Senthil Balasubramanian , Felix Fietkau Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Seth Forshee wrote: > I recently updated a machine with AR9285 wireless from kernel version > 3.0 to 3.2 and saw that wireless had become slow and unreliable. It > seems that the problem is extremely frequent CTS timeouts, which began > happening with commit adb5066 (ath9k_hw: do not apply the 2.4 ghz ack > timeout workaround to cts). Restoring the CTS timeout to the value prior > to this commit on top of 3.2 gets performance back to what it was with > 3.0. does the environment is a noisy one (or) clear one > > I don't have any other ath9k cards lying around, but various other cards > are working fine with this router. Any ideas what's wrong here? > > Thanks, > Seth > -- > 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