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From: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:48:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: Auth Packet TX Delay
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
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Maybe I have the terminology wrong, but I thought a cold reset meant
toggling the PCI reset line.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 7 February 2013 11:43, Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com> wrote:
>> AR9160 / AR9106
>
> Things are getting into a really odd state if that particular initial
> calibration isn't finishing...
>
> Things I can think of:
>
> * There's some kind of noise going on that's angering the PHY (eg a spur);
> * We should be doing a cold reset instead of a warm reset, upon a
> channel change; (That fixes some issues I've seen on the AR9280 in
> some environments);
> * Bad/incorrectly hooked up antenans.
>
> From a software side, nothing much can be going wrong. as long as the
> driver isn't doing something stupid like running multiple copies of
> the reset / setup path on different CPUs/threads, it should be
> reliable.
>
> HTH,
>
>
>
> Adrian