From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:00:49 +0530
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To: Nick Thomas <nhomas@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ath9k] Recent driver versions break compatibility with AR9285
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Nick Thomas wrote:
> The latter iwconfig readout is from an old kernel version (3.2.39),
> where the card does indeed work. What I wish to report is that in a
> more recent kernel version (3.7.10), the card doesn't work (iwconfig
> says "no wireless extensions"). It's not a problem for me (I'm happily
> using the old kernel), but I thought it was worth reporting.

Ah, ok.

> Some Googling tells me that a number of people have run into similar
> problems (kernel versions >=3.3 breaking their AR928X cards). Maybe
> you guys have been made aware of this?

That issue was fixed a long time by reverting the problematic commit.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=011afa1ed8c408d694957d2474d89dc81a60b70c

3.7.x shouldn't be affected by that issue. Can you post the kernel log ?

Sujith