Re: problems with madwifi and Atheros AR5418
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:58:54 +0200
mpg <mpg@elzevir.fr> wrote:
...
> By the way, I was perhaps a bit to fast saying that "it wotks". Actually it
> worked for the whole day, then there was a general electrical failure,
> which means my AP when down and my laptop on battery (don't know which one
> is responsible).
>
> When I tried to re-connect to the AP, no way to use the wifi. Even rebooting
> couldn't change that. Then I tried to reinstall the madwifi drivers, and
> when I loaded ath_pci (after unloading ath9k) I has what looks like a bad
> error:
>
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth dhclient: send_packet: No such device
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] irq 17: nobody cared (try
> booting with the "irqpoll" option)
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P
> 2.6.27-rc5 #1
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014]
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] Call Trace:
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8027342b>]
> __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x72
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff80273674>]
> note_interrupt+0x207/0x26b
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff80273d4c>]
> handle_fasteoi_irq+0xb1/0xdb
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff8020f5e5>]
> do_IRQ+0x6d/0xd6
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff8020c66e>]
> ret_from_intr+0x0/0x29
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] <EOI> [<ffffffff803bf45c>]
> menu_reflect+0x0/0x61
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffffa000c115>]
> acpi_idle_enter_c1+0x14c/0x194 [processor]
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffffa000c0b1>]
> acpi_idle_enter_c1+0xe8/0x194 [processor]
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff803be534>]
> cpuidle_idle_call+0x94/0xd1
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffff8020b0cf>]
> cpu_idle+0x8e/0xd6
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014]
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] handlers:
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] [<ffffffffa040253f>]
> (ath_intr+0x0/0x3f59 [ath_pci])
> Sep 3 21:37:09 roth kernel: [ 729.016014] Disabling IRQ #17
>
> (IRQ 17 was used by the wireless chip). After that, I rebooted and
> everything works fine again with ath9k.
>
> Do you have any idea how to investigate this?
Sorry, I have no idea what those messages signify.
> Thanks,
> Manuel.
Celejar
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