Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:00:38 -0400
From: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: carl9170: monitor mode hangs due to channel changes
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As far as I can tell those patches fixed it.  I wasn't paying
attention and applied both patches though.  My environment
is a little different today and I will test some more on Monday.

If you think it would help, I can test the patches individually.

Thanks!

Marco

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:09:47PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 09:50:13 PM Marco Fonseca wrote:
> > I'm seeing a problem with the carl driver. If I change channels
> > repeatedly on the 2.4ghz band, monitoring (e.g. tcpdump) will
> > eventually halt.  I've seen this on various versions of the carl
> > driver/firmware (both from 1.9.4 to 1.9.7)
> thanks for reporting this. You could try either of the attached
> patch and test if it alleviate the issue. If the patches do help
> then the problem is caused by rf/phy (code) [which is a problem
> since the rf/phy parts are taken from the vendor driver as we
> have no docs or specs for it].
> 
> Regards,
> 	Chr