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On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 16:01 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Chuck Crisler <ccrisler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well, (as usual) I was wrong. It isn't a memory problem. It seems that after
> > some indeterminant time, the USB interface locks up. When we try to take it
> > down (ifconfig wlan0 down) we get a message about outstanding urbs. By
> > powering down the 9170 we can re-set the device and get it to re-associate
> > and resume work. So, the problem is a USB problem. The question is if it is
> > a module problem or a system problem. We are typically seeing this after
> > 50-200 reassociations. If we don't reassociate, it doesn't seem to occur.
> > Does anyone else have experience or insight into this?
> 
> Upgrade.

Won't help. I've seen that issue as recently as 2.6.35 (I think) with
ar9170, and eventually figured I wouldn't bother and started using
carl9170.

johannes

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