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

[Evgeni Golov]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:28:04 -0700 Justin Mattock wrote:

> > Same here with 2.6.30-rc4, b43 and either Cisco (MAC-Addr starts with
> > 00:40:96) or HP ProCurve (??? - they do WiFi? - MAC-Addr starts with
> > 00:1F:FE) APs. No encryption, quite noisy environment (University).
> >
> > No problem with ipw2200 (actually 2915) in the same hardware (Thinkpad
> > X31). Neither with the b43 and a standard Linksys WRT54GL (in the same!
> > noisy university-env).
> >
> > Regards
> > Evgeni
> >
> >
> 
> are you able to connect?
> (or is the connection connecting but really
> poor quality?)
> over here 2.6.29-rc8 connects like
> theirs no tomorrow, as soon as
> I throw in 2.6.30-rc4 it just dead(although
> on some accounts I did get some kind of
> reaction, but not much, just what I see in dmesg).

2.6.29: fairly stable, even if not as good as with an intel card.
2.6.30-rc4: tons of timeouts, may connect 1 in 100 tries, connection
will drop after some (short) time.

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