Bug#666969: [squeeze] ath5k noise floor calibration timeout

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi Ivan,

Иван Андонов wrote:

> [Subject: ath5k noise floor calibration timeout]
>
> I had this problem time to time, but since the last(I think)
> kernel update the things are getting worse.
> At the begining I was thinking that some application is not responding
> so this may cause the slow system speed.
> Later I checked the log and I saw that the kernel log is full of
> noise floor calibration messages that keep popping every 2 seconds.
> This causes some package dropping and super slow computer speed.
> It makes the computer almost unusable... I mean it gets stucked
> at every 5 seconds...

Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the long silence.  Please test the
patches marked

  0001-ath5k-initialize-default-noise-floor.patch
  0002-ath5k-use-noise-calibration-from-madwifi-hal.patch

from [1] together, following the instructions at [2].

Hope that helps,
Jonathan

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=56;bug=611107
[2] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official
    or the corresponding page in the debian-kernel-handbook package