On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [I am no longer subscribed to the list so please Cc me] > > I'm the person who reported that my system kept freezing when shutting > down my AR9285 wireless with kernel 2.6.35 or newer. > > I've just bought an Acer Aspire Revo 3700 and this had very similar > symptoms with a different adapter. Luckily another customer had posted > about it on the vendor's website and his fix works for me. The fix is to > blacklist the rt2800pci module and the rt2860sta driver seems to work > quite happily without it. > > It looks as if rt2800pci was introduced somewhere between 2.6.32 and > 2.6.34 and I experienced the crashes with 2.6.35 (Mint 10/Ubuntu 10.10) > and 2.6.37 (Debian unstable), but not with 2.6.32 (Debian squeeze) which > doesn't have that module. can you please check by disabling the supicious rt modules and see whether this problems happens. for quick check please try with the latest compat wireless. > > It's probably just coincidence, but I was struck by how similar the > symptoms are and wondered whether these different drivers have anything > in common? > > lspci output: > > 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3090] > Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device [11ad:6622] > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18 > Region 0: Memory at febf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: rt2860 > -- > 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 > -- 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
