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From: Brian Walker <walkerbm@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:47:00 -0500
Subject: [ath9k-devel] trouble with DWA-552 and ath9k
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Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:27 -0500, Brian Walker wrote:
>
>   
>> Any update? I'd be glad to do further debugging with any code changes.
>>     
>
> It turns out that Ubiquiti SR71-15, which is also a miniPCI card with
> AR9280 chipset is working properly.  It only supports the 5 GHz band.
>
> Moreover, if I install both Ubiquiti SR71-15 and SR71-12, then SR71-12
> works!  But if I modify ath9k to only match SR71-12, then it fails.
>
> The debug messages are somewhat interesting:
>
> mac80211: debugfs: failed to rename debugfs dir to netdev:wlan0
> udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan13
> ath: timeout (100000 us) on reg 0x9860: 0xdeadbeef & 0x00000001 != 0x00000000
> ath: Unable to reset hardware; reset status -5 (freq 2412 MHz)
>
> 0xdeadbeef actually comes from the register.  Either the Atheros chipset
> is returning it (unlikely), or the driver is not reading it from the
> actual hardware!
>
>   
Any update? I see several new snapshots at 
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/

Brian