Re: ath9k seems to be broken on 2.6.30-rc4 with a macbook pro

[Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:28:04 -0700 Justin Mattock wrote:
>
>> > Same here with 2.6.30-rc4, b43 and either Cisco (MAC-Addr starts with
>> > 00:40:96) or HP ProCurve (??? - they do WiFi? - MAC-Addr starts with
>> > 00:1F:FE) APs. No encryption, quite noisy environment (University).
>> >
>> > No problem with ipw2200 (actually 2915) in the same hardware (Thinkpad
>> > X31). Neither with the b43 and a standard Linksys WRT54GL (in the same!
>> > noisy university-env).
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Evgeni
>> >
>> >
>>
>> are you able to connect?
>> (or is the connection connecting but really
>> poor quality?)
>> over here 2.6.29-rc8 connects like
>> theirs no tomorrow, as soon as
>> I throw in 2.6.30-rc4 it just dead(although
>> on some accounts I did get some kind of
>> reaction, but not much, just what I see in dmesg).
>
> 2.6.29: fairly stable, even if not as good as with an intel card.
> 2.6.30-rc4: tons of timeouts, may connect 1 in 100 tries, connection
> will drop after some (short) time.
>
> --
> Bruce Schneier Fact Number 79:
> Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.
>

O.K. after trial and error reverting this:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8;hp=853da11b94e674445e93660f47a5f0aeeea09623

brings life back to the macbook with 2.6.30-rc4
(not sure about the iphone anomaly though, I'll keep
an eye on that)

-- 
Justin P. Mattock