Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro

From: Justin Mattock
Date: Mon May 11 2009 - 19:23:34 EST


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Adding some CCs.
>>
>> On 05/11/2009 07:02 PM, Justin Mattock wrote:
>>> I've been trying to diagnose an issue
>>> with 2.6.30-rc4. At first thinking it
>>> was not the kernel, but the network manager
>>> (in my case I use wicd).
>>> with 2.6.29-rc8 the system starts up,
>>> connects no problem.
>>> but as soon as I load 2.6.30-rc4
>>> I get limited connection to none.
>>> in dmesg I see:
>>>
>>> [   36.337419] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 1
>>> [   36.530106] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 2
>>> [   36.730100] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 3
>>> [   36.930101] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 timed out
>>> [   44.421728] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 1
>>> [   44.620080] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 2
>>> [   44.820080] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 try 3
>>> [   45.020076] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:1e:2a:00:67:f0 timed out
>>>
>>> The type of encryption used is just
>>> a standard WEP key(no WPA).
>>>
>>> has this been resolved already?
>
> Can you provide more details, like the AP you used, and card you have?
> (dmesg log would be nice).
>
>  Luis
>

The AP I use is a
netgear 54g(cheap 40 dollar router from
bestbuy)

attached is dmesg and lspci
disregard the kernel commits
2.6.30-rc4-00004-gfb422e6
(those are from the bluetooth patches a few
days ago) without them the kernel is at
2.6.30-rc4.


--
Justin P. Mattock

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