From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:38:25 -0700 Subject: [ath9k-devel] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <847783.44585.qm@web50206.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <894797.19287.qm@web50203.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <847783.44585.qm@web50206.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20080924203825.GG6688@tesla> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:26:01PM -0700, Vaibhav Chhabra wrote: > so last night i reverted back to linux-source-2.6.26 (debian) and used "compat-wireless-ath9k-20080916.tar.gz" from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=907129 We now have ath9k in compat-wireless-old (for kernels <= 2.6.26). But please note more effort is being put into updating ath9k upstream. compat-wireless-old essentially is a fork of mac80211 and its drivers for support on older kernels. Developers wishing to contribute to it can further bring patches from wireless-testing to it (please send patches to compat-masters list). > you have to modify the script and remove the uname -r checks from dependencies (for non-ubuntu users that use a debian flavor) > > The wireless works fine, just at times drops connections the things that fixes it is removing the module and loading it again: > rmmod ath9k > modprobe ath9k > iwconfig wlan0 essid ... > dhclient wlan0 > > don't know if this helps the dev's to debug (regarding the dropped connection issues) or someone trying to get AR9281 wireless cards to work on any debian flavor. Any feed back would be appreciated. There have been some new patches which fix some drop connection issues (group key patch) which has been pushed out to 2.6.27 and on wireless-testing. I'd recommend to try 2.6.27-rc7 with the group key patch and MIB interrupt disable patch. I guess we should put these pending patches somewhere, then we just have to apply them to compat-wireless-old too. Help with this is greatly welcomed as compat-wireless-old is lead by the help of the community. Luis