Ticket #2166 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

ath5k Rx Intermittent (AR5001X+)

Reported by: phil.woodland@gmail.com Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: ath5k Version: v0.9.4
Keywords: ath5k AR5001 Rx Cc:
Patch is attached: 0 Pending: 0

Description

I upgraded to the Kubuntu/Ubuntu patched kernel 2.27.7-10, which includes the ath5k driver instead of the old madwifi ath_pci driver. The card information is as follows (lspci -vv):

05:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a13 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster?+ SpecCycle?- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr?- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr?- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent?=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

Kernel driver in use: ath_pci Kernel modules: ath_pci, ath5k

As you can see above, I have blacklisted the ath5k driver so that I can use the older madwifi ath_pci driver. The ath5k module loads without errors.

The Problem: Using KNetwork Manager, and have also tried WiCD, the card responds correctly and connects to a given network without any errors. On first connect I start using the connection and everything seems fine. About a minute into the connection the cards Tx keeps sending packets but Rx stops receiving packets. This will continue for a few minutes, then suddenly the card will start receiving packets again for another minute or two. This cycle continues. If when the cards Rx has stalled I disconnect and reconnect to the network, I get that (approx.) one minute of Rx again then the cycle continues.

While using WiCD the log file would fill with "[TIME STAMP] ifconfig wlan0" & "[TIME STAMP] iwconfig wlan0"

Dmesg does not list any errors for the network or the ath5k module. I could not find any other log that would help, but I may not really know what I'm looking for.

If more information is needed please let me know and I'll revert back to the ath5k module to get a more complete report, I would like to get the shiny new module to work.

Thanks, Phil

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11/21/08 14:26:40 changed by mrenzmann

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

Both, ath5k and ath9k, are part of the kernel some time now. It's better for everyone to have bug reports for those drivers in the kernel bugzilla, as they will likely get better attention there. Hence from now on we don't accept new tickets for ath5k/ath9k here.

We talked to Linux Wireless developers about how to best handle tickets that already have been filed here for ath5k/ath9k. The original idea was to copy those bugs over to the kernel bugzilla. But then many of these tickets have not seen any activity for a while, and it's not clear if the reported issue still exists or if the reporter is even still around to answer bugs.

In the end we agreed that it would be best to ask people to open a new ticket at bugzilla.kernel.org for those issues that still exist in the latest version of ath5k/ath9k, and close related tickets here. This is what I do now (closing as invalid, since that seems to be the best matching resolution available).

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.

Add/Change #2166 (ath5k Rx Intermittent (AR5001X+))