On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:17:40 +0530 > Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> can you please check by disabling the supicious rt modules and see >> whether this problems happens. > > Yes, I did blacklist rt2800pci and the system works correctly without > the module loaded. Even the wireless connection still works. Ok still there is also one or two guys reporting this locking issue, so we need to be very sure. > >> for quick check please try with the latest compat wireless. > > How do I do that? > > I would also be willing to add extra debugging messages to ath9k to help > track down the AR9285 problem. I'm a C programmer, but not a kernel > hacker so I think I would need some advice about which functions to > examine. > No its nothing to do with kernel hacking, its just a wireless package. instead of compiling the whole kernel or wireless testing, we can install a wireless package within our linux distribution in few minutes. This package is called compat-wireless which includes latest fixes in wireless testing. more information in: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download 1.now download the compat wireless package in http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ 2. cd compat-wireless-... 3. As you are suspicious about rt modules remove them in config.mk 4.now do ./scripts/driver-select ath9k 5.make 6.make install 7.make unload 8.sudo modprobe ath9k thanks, shafi -- 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
