Bug#622971: Ath9K wireless quite unreliable since upgrade to 2.6.38

[Kyle Girard <theycallmecoach@gmail.com>]

I've also been getting this problem on my machine possibly a little less frequently with 3.x kernels, I'm currently using the following kernel

Linux debian 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 13:47:12 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

network card:

05:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5416 Wireless Network Adapter [AR5008 802.11(a)bgn] (rev 01)

dmesg snippet:

[174679.683503] ath: Unable to reset channel (2442 MHz), reset status -5

[174679.683541] ath: Unable to set channel

[174679.799448] ath: Could not kill baseband RX

[174679.916386] ath: Unable to reset channel (2447 MHz), reset status -5

[174679.916413] ath: Unable to set channel

[174680.032270] ath: Could not kill baseband RX

[174680.149146] ath: Unable to reset channel (2452 MHz), reset status -5

[174680.149159] ath: Unable to set channel

modprobe/modprobe -r ath9k solves my problems. Having my net 

connection die randomly is getting really annoying.  I am willing to collect more info if required.

Kyle