[ath9k-devel] ath9k module-Unable to set channel-since ath comes

[Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 23:12 +0200, Alexander Bartha wrote:
>> Hello to everybody at linuxwireless
>>
>> Since the "Submodule" ath comes aht9k says in messages:
>>
>> May ?7 22:11:34 ws1 [ 4442.304763] ath9k: Unable to set channel
>> May ?7 22:11:34 ws1 [ 4442.425550] ath9k: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x9860: 0x0
>> 0049d19 & 0x00000001 != 0x00000000
>> May ?7 22:11:34 ws1 [ 4442.425555] ath9k: Unable to reset channel (2422 Mhz) res
>> et status 4294967291
>> May ?7 22:11:34 ws1 [ 4442.425560] ath9k: Unable to set channel
>> May ?7 22:11:34 ws1 [ 4442.546365] ath9k: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x9860: 0x0
>> 0049d19 & 0x00000001 != 0x00000000
>>
>> i have tried different versions of the modules but since compat-wireless-2009-04-16 i get this errors.
>>
>> till that all works fine sometime the driver have little problems after not using the network. thanks for the drivers
>
> I track wireless-testing.git and I saw it in the last weeks. ?I think it
> happens after about 260 pings at the normal speed (i.e. not with flood
> ping). ?I was thinking about bisecting the problem, but I don't have
> much time right now.
>
> Last time I saw it was on Monday. ?There were some changes to ath9k
> since then, so maybe it's fixed.

This may have been caused by the idle patches for which Johannes has
posted a fix. This should get merged soon so give it a few more days
and try again.

If you want something a little more stable you can go with the stable
compat-wireless releases:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable

  Luis