Re: ath5k_pci: gain calibration timeout / unable to reset hardware-11

From: Soeren Sonnenburg
Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 03:43:19 EST


On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 15:53 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was using the ath5k_pci driver on a macbook pro 1,1 and it is working
> > for some time but then suddenly messages like the ones below appear and
> > I have to *turn off* the machine to get it back working (even booting to
> > osx is not sufficient - osx won't have network when things go wrong as
> > they do after a couple of hours). Note that this happens with both
> > 2.6.27 and .28.
>
> Hi Soeren,
>
> Thanks for the report. It is a known problem, with a bugzilla entry already:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12080

I remember to having had a similar problem with madwifi-ng at some
point. However, that disappeared and I also remember that other people
were still seeing it. That one could at least be easily fixed by using
just a single cpu-core. But I don't remember that it really required a
power down of the machine....

Soeren
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