On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:54:55AM -0400, Ian MacDonald wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 04:09 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I don't see any fixes there except for disabling power-saving by
> > default, and we have that already.
>
> After disabling power management (which I suspect may have already been
> turned off by default), no change with this issue.
>
> Oct 20 18:18:57 maple kernel: [89284.317016] No probe response from AP 00:01:46:XX:XX:XX after 500ms, disconnecting.
> Oct 20 23:38:25 maple kernel: [108452.317019] No probe response from AP 00:01:46:XX:XX:XX after 500ms, disconnecting.
>
> maple:~# iwconfig | grep "Power Management"
> Power Management:off
>
> There is no specific fix for 2.6.32 as it seems to have resolved itself
> in the current kernel release and from the comments, it appears the
> developers were unable to bisect to the specific commit possibly due to
> build problems over the range where the problem was introduced. Knowing
> this issue is pegged to Debian stable might help move that effort
> forwards so I'll post upstream as well.
>
> Would an ath9k update be considered/possible at this point if a build
> against current source resolves this issue?
We will only apply bug fixes and new hardware support. We will not
normally update a driver to a later upstream version because we do not
have the resources to carry out regression testing.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
- Albert Camus
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