Bug#497870: Still crashing

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:45:21PM +0200, Hans Christian wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just had another crash. Same symptoms: heavy wireless network activity
> causes the system to crash with blinking wireless and caps lock icons. Couldn't
> contact the computer in anyway and had to do turn it off with the power button.
> 
> Is any progress being made on this bug?
> 
> I have no logs no nothing to prove it, but it seems to me that the most
> consistent thing about these crashes are the transfers of many small
> files. I have transfered large files without issues, but transferring many
> small files often make me crash in this manner.

Does the problem still occur if you run current 2.6.28-rcX kernels?
There've been lots of changes on the ath5k driver.

Cheers,
        Moritz