Hi Christian, thank you for the patch, I tried it and it works fine. No, I am not running OpenWRT, it is just a normal Desktop with an USB wireless connection. Kind Regards. 2013/5/5 Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello Rubén, > > On Sunday, May 05, 2013 03:20:30 PM Rubén Porras wrote: >> the module carl9170 is working very slow in linux version 3.6.9 with the >> dongle WN111(v2), although I am able to transmit/receive information for a >> while using it, eventually the transmission hangs and it is not possible to >> send any data, and I must reset the connection (ifdown wlan0 and ifup >> wlan0). Several warnings follows which are available in the kernel >> messages, which probably help to track the problem. If it helps to track >> the problem I can test any patches you send me. >> >> PD: From the post https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=43243 I >> suppose that I am not the only one having the problem. >> >> [ 25.543551] ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> [ 25.543570] WARNING: at drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/tx.c:992 >> carl9170_op_tx+0x1f0/0x72f [carl9170]() > > Ah, this sounds familiar. The good news is that the interoperability > problem between minstrel_ht and carl9170 was discovered and > fixed back in February already [the mainline is not affected]. > > If you know how to apply patches and compile drivers, then you can > easily fix it yourself by applying the following patch: > "carl9170: fix frame drop and WARN due to minstrel_ht change" > <https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2174121/> > > and compile the new carl9170 module. > > Regards, > Christian > > BTW: I assume you are also running some version of openwrt. Is this > correct? Can you tell me which one? Since if this affects a stable > release, we should notify the OpenWRT folks, so they can take action. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
