> > On 14-02-08 20:10:27, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > > > > There is no problem to be fixed. When I said that I found the issue, I > > meant that you are using a NIC which is not supposed to work on 5GHz on > these channels and this leads to the issues. > > Right, wireless-N 7260 is not advertised as 5GHz card. I just got over my > laziness and searched the net. > > > The fact that it doesn't work for you with -8.ucode proves that I am correct. > > This is something i'd rather not comment on. :P > > > I sent a patch that will disable 5GHz band for you from the driver level so > that you won't suffer from firmware asserts. > > Sweet. > > > You told me you could work on 5GHz with this NIC - good for you. > > Conclude whatever you want from this, this is none of my business - > > but for sure, the "issues" you are seeing are related to the fact that your > NIC isn't supposed to be working on 5GHz, and hence, there is no bug to be > fixed. > > Now that's funny. Intel made an effort to put 5GHz radio on this card. They > even released firmware that can actually make use of this band. I am pretty > sure you won't answer these, but i'll ask why is that anyway: > > a) is the 'A' band implementation so buggy that you/Intel decided to > disable it altogether? Nope - band A works very well - but just like all the vendors, Intel has several SKUs and capabilities differ between the SKUs. > b) it is on sale too cheap to give it's customers the 'A' band; As a maintainer / communist / peace lover / whatever I was not chosen to be part of the pricing discussions at Intel... > c) a mix of both (or none) of the above; > > I kind of doubt it is a) since my laptop would happily stay connected to the > router (on AN band) for days. Were it not for the ugly 'dmesg' i'd never > know there is a problem. I have no idea of the device internals, but blowing > up the workqueue (or whatever) is a bit too much. With or without the A > band functionality. ;) > > Thanks for taking the time to look at my 'problem'. > > > Petko -- 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
