Updated news, built a carl9170 firmware off the 1.9.4 tag and this issue appears to have been resolved. I expect it was related to some of the "timing" changes that appear to have been made. Thanks, Brandt On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:50 -0600, Brandt Deakin wrote: > I'm attempting to use carl9170 in AP mode and I'm seeing some > interesting errors. When calling hostapd to initialize the AP, 10-50% > of the attempts will be unsuccessful and report the following: > > > Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Connection ieee80211 phy1: lost 7 > command responses/traps! w:9 g:0 > usb 1-1: restart device (8) > timed out > nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP > nl80211 driver initialization failed. > rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory > usb 1-1: firmware upload failed (-110). > usb 1-1: Failed to restart device (-110). > usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device number 2 using ehci-omap > usb 1-1: reset high speed USB device number 2 using ehci-omap > usb 1-1: driver API: 1.9.2 2011-01-22 [1-1] > usb 1-1: firmware API: 1.9.2 2010-12-25 > usb 1-1: Atheros AR9170 is registered as 'phy2' > > I'm seeing this error on the Beagleboard xM (Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38) as > well as on a Lenovo x200 PC (Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38). I've reproduced it > with 2.6.39 on the Beagleboard (not xM) as well. When initializing the > normal client mode, I've never seen a failure to "upload" the firmware > like this. It seems to be particular to the AP mode. Suggestions for > resolution are appreciated. I'm going to open up the carl9170 firmware > source and start trying to determine a possible cause there. > > Thanks, > Brandt > > -- 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
