From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@qualcomm.com>
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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 05:39:26 +0530
To: Koos Pol <koos2012@pohw.nl>
CC: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Problems with Atheros AR54B22 (AR9462)
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Koos Pol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After receiving great help on irc #linux-wireless, I'd figure to post the
> results here in case someone wants to track this down.
> 
> I've installed openSUSE 12.2 on a brand new Acer V3-771 with the Atheros
> AR54B22 chipset. The ath9 driver works right out of the box. But.... My wlan
> router (Fritzbox 7170) doesn't seem to handle it very well, as it will
> drop/reset the wlan connection after a few seconds. Notably other wlan laptops
> are disconnected too. The whole wlan network seems to go astray.
> So it seems to be strongly related to the Fritzbox. I did manage to connect
> successfully to someone else's pub wifi.
> Is this something worth debugging (for the greater public as well)?
> 
> The response I got from irc (sacamano_m82) was to use the compat-wireless
> package as ath9k is still under development.
> 
> I did and I have perfect wlan connectivity now. Wlan is stable since. So that
> did the trick.

Nice.

> If anyone is interested in debugging this, I'm happy to help you in any way I
> can. Just tell me what to do. FYI, I'm not subscribed to this list.

Well, the kernel in openSUSE 12.2 probably doesn't have full support for AR9462 yet..

Sujith