ath9k dead periods

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Tue Apr 14 10:34:40 UTC 2009


Jack Howarth wrote:
>    Is anyone else having problems with the ath9k wireless
> drivers in current rawhide? I find that for all of the
> kernels recently in rawhide that the wireless throughput
> with dry up periodically. For example, if I do a yum update,
> the downloads will periodically hang and then yum will
> time out to a series of alternate servers. During this
> period of time no network access is possible (dns/ftp/ssh)
> from the machine in question. I am seeing this on a
> MacBook Pro v2,1 connecting to an Apple Airport
> Extreme Gigabyte wireless router that is configured for
> N protocol on 5MHz frequencies only with wide channels
> and a 6Mbps multicast rate. The same machine under
> Mac OS X 10.5.6 has rock solid connectivity. During
> these network dead periods, the NetworkManager in
> the menu bar continues to show the signal level at
> maximum level and there are no error messages in
> the system log related to the ath9k driver in use.
> This bug basically makes linux unusable over wireless   
> connections.
>               
Hum I can confirm similar or same experience on my T61p with F11 64 bit
installed.

Which suggest that the driver is not the problem but some other 
underlying cause..

Nothing obvious in logs.

JBG
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