[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 07/12] ath9k: Channel structure cleanup

2008-08-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
for channels which support both modes, check chanmode instead. Signed-off-by: Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.h | 44 +-- drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c | 30 +++ drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h |6

[ath9k-devel] [PATCH 10/12] ath9k: Port to new skb-cb mac80211 changes

2008-08-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Change settings as per skb-cb fix patch which removed IEEE80211_TX_CTL_DO_NOT_ENCRYPT and IEEE80211_TX_CTL_EAPOL_FRAME. Signed-off-by: Jack Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c |5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 2/4] list.h: add list_cut_position()

2008-08-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:00:11PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:48:09 -0700 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: This adds list_cut_position() which lets you cut a list into two lists given a pivot in the list. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 2/4] list.h: add list_cut_position()

2008-08-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:52:22AM -0700, Jochen Voß wrote: Hi, 2008/8/5 Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +static inline void __list_cut_position(struct list_head *list, + struct list_head *head, struct list_head *entry) +{ + struct list_head *new_first

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/4] list.h: Add list_splice_tail() and list_splice_tail_init()

2008-08-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:26:19PM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:03:15AM -0700, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:48 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: If you are using linked lists for queues list_splice() will not do what you would expect even if you

[ath9k-devel] ath9k development

2008-08-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Since ath9k is now in wirless-testing please only use wireless-testing from now on for patches or for relying on it for the latest and greatest. That said ath9k.git and my-wireless-testing.git tree should not be relied on and I'll probably kill them sooon. Luis

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 1/1] ath9k: merge ath9k_txq_info and ath9k_tx_queue_info structures

2008-08-07 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2008 04:45:27 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: Patch is compile time and runtime tested. Thanks for the heads up, you should only mention something like this if *you didn't* test the patch

Re: [ath9k-devel] Running out of SWIOTLB space

2008-08-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:21:05AM -0700, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Juergen Kreileder wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:09:31PM -0700, Juergen Kreileder wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Juergen Kreileder wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Juergen

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k on DWA556 - Very low data rate in Ad-Hoc mode

2008-08-12 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:34:56AM -0700, Robert Horvath wrote: Louis, We are in desperate need of ad-hoc networking, any help would be really appreciated. When dou you plan to finish the ad-hoc networking? I hope we'll get it fixed for 27. If you don't know when, who can provide

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k on DWA556 - Very low data rate in Ad-Hoc mode

2008-08-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:47:20PM -0700, Kevin Mitchell wrote: I also see 1Mb/s from iwconfig with my ar5418, but I don't think this means anything as my router (Dlink DIR-655) tells me its anywhere between 100-300Mb/s and I usually real get speeds 15-25Mb/s vs. ~20Mb/s for madwifi. Good

Re: [ath9k-devel] Support for AR9001U chips?

2008-08-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:31:44PM -0700, Michael Renzmann wrote: Hi. Timo Kunze wrote: Does this mean support for the Atheros USB chipsets is not even planned (be it as part of the ath9k project or as a spin-off project)? Well, there is a work in progress Linux driver for Atheros-based

Re: [ath9k-devel] Poor performance on AR5418

2008-08-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:47:05PM -0700, Jeremy Apthorp wrote: 2008/8/27 Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jeremy Apthorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just built and tested out kernel 2.6.27-rc4 (with ath9k drivers included) on my MacBook Pro 3,1. There's

Re: [ath9k-devel] Poor performance on AR5418

2008-08-27 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:59:29AM -0700, Amit Sood wrote: connecting b/g (like wrt54g) router. I don't have 'n' router yet. A few of you have reported issues with packet loss, we only recenlty started to be able to reproduce some of these issues and we are looking into them and will work to

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Steven Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I can think of is that I've got 'irqpoll' on the command line. I have it because I had to reload the ath9k driver at one point, and this was the result (caused ath9k to become a useless driver until I

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:49:45PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: No, it's in hex. 0x17 = 23, 0x11 = 17. IRQ 17 is the one that pooped in my case, which is my wireless chipset. Ah - boo. If I do, I'll need to know what precisely to do about it. What debug info should I collect before

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Steven Noonan I always get 1 megabit/sec. It actually measures (at best) to be a throughput of 8mbits/sec, though the average (due to strange random packet loss) is about 4mbits/sec. -- Yeah, iwconfig reports a wrong rate, should be easy to fix but I haven't

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Steven Noonan Will do! And actually, to be precise, the issue occurred not on the rmmod, but on the following modprobe for ath9k. Ah -- it makes it even more interesting now.. Which is far more important, I agree. It's annoying to get speeds 802.11b on my

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:52:16PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: This IRQ debugging is lots of fun. My /var/log/messages jumped in size to 241MB. :) My test case was a file transfer that basically copies 50MB from a remote machine's /dev/urandom and writes it to /dev/null locally. That should

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k constantly drops network connection

2008-09-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Partha Bagchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update: The new code Please elaborate on what new code is. Did you take compat-wireless-old, upgrade to compat-wireless's ath9k and apply the new group key patch posted? actually more unstable on my machine which you may

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:58:24AM -0700, Senthilkumar Balasubramanian wrote: I am on 2.6.27-rc6 and this patch is on top of my earlier patch titled [PATCH] ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group rekeying is done. However this patch can be applied on top of latest wireless testing too. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is capital i, this will show you the monitor results of number of interrupts on IRQ 17. You want to see if the rate of change is huge when you have latency issues. If not then its most likely I meant most likely

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k constantly drops network connection

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:31:48PM -0700, Partha Bagchi wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Partha Bagchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip--- Currently the network has been up for 24 minutes. I will let you

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Steven Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Steven Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And here's the change as I unload and reload ath9k: [...] 20:21:38 sum 20138.83 20:21:40 sum 21576.09 20:21:41 sum

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/9/20 Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 13:57 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/irq $ sar -f irqlog-storm.sar -A Invalid system activity file: irqlog-storm.sar Perhaps we its a different format than what my sar can read... It changes like

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Steven Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here's what we need to do -- try to zero on in what causes this IRQ storm. How is the best way to approach this? I assume ATH_DBG_INTERRUPT

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Steven Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I don't have an Xbox 360 or PS3 (sad, I know). Do have several 2.4GHz phones. ;) Microwaves are the best to make the signal wet poop BTW, if you have that option available. Not sure if we can trigger the device that

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k constantly drops network connection

2008-09-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Partha Bagchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget, I already copied the ath9k subdrirectory from the latest tree and applied the patch and compiled it. Is there anything intrinsic about the 2.6.27 kernel that will help the connection? You get a new shiny

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)

2008-09-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 06:48:05PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: OK, here's the time index at which it b0rked: 18:28:42 sum 1155.00 18:28:43 sum 1339.00 18:28:44 sum 18355.00 18:28:45 sum 17845.45 And the entire log of the minute 18:28 is here:

Re: [ath9k-devel] (no subject)

2008-09-24 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:26:01PM -0700, Vaibhav Chhabra wrote: so last night i reverted back to linux-source-2.6.26 (debian) and used compat-wireless-ath9k-20080916.tar.gzhttp://rapidshare.com/files/145746749/compat-wireless-ath9k-20080916.tar.gz.html from:

Re: [ath9k-devel] (no subject)

2008-09-24 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:38:25PM -0700, Luis Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:26:01PM -0700, Vaibhav Chhabra wrote: so last night i reverted back to linux-source-2.6.26 (debian) and used

Re: [ath9k-devel] 802.11n MiniPCI card

2008-09-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Tim Niemueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ath9k developers. We are currently investigating the possibilities to upgrade the network adapters on our robots (it's one of those university things where money is available only now...). We need MiniPCI cards for

Re: [ath9k-devel] 802.11n MiniPCI card

2008-09-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Tim Niemueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Tim Niemueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: ath9k supports all Atheros 802.11n devices, not sure what the AR9220 is, I will check. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] 802.11n MiniPCI card

2008-09-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/9/26 Jean Schurger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le vendredi 26 septembre 2008 à 02:02 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez a écrit : On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Tim Niemueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Tim Niemueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [ath9k-devel] Hardware out on shelves with new Atheros AR9280 and AR9281

2008-10-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 03:44:10PM -0700, Tim Niemueller wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: Just to let you know we have new devices out now with our shiny new 11n chipsets, AR9280 and AR9281: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: panic on tip/master

2008-10-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
number's spinlock during ath_bar_rx(). Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [ath9k-devel] Does the brand of router matter?

2008-10-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:30 AM, B Gates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Developers: First I would like to say THANK YOU to the developers for the drivers. Your work is very much appreciated. Second, does the brand (and chipset) affect the connect speeds and stability? I am currently using the

[ath9k-devel] ath5k and ath9k bugs - a collection to help users

2008-10-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Bugs tend to be reported in several different places. In general kernel bugs should be reported on the kernel.org bugzilla and users are expected to be able to test patches on the latest and greatest stable kernel (or RC). To help users and distributions keeping track of ath5k and ath9k bugs

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-643

2008-10-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Falke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded compat-wireless and compiled it (wrong?). To connect i use wicd. I would recommend to upgrade to 2.6.27 and try compat-wireless for it (not -old). Luis ___ ath9k-devel

[ath9k-devel] Eee PC S101 released -- shipping with AR9281

2008-10-09 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
FYI, The Asus Eee PC S101 was released on October 7 and in it you will find one of our latest 802.11n chipsets, AR9281. This is one of ath9k's supported chipsets :) http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=12994 Luis ___ ath9k-devel mailing list

Re: [ath9k-devel] Eee PC S101 released -- shipping with AR9281

2008-10-10 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, The Asus Eee PC S101 was released on October 7 and in it you will find one of our latest 802.11n chipsets, AR9281. This is one of ath9k's supported chipsets :) http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=12994 Oh

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-547, connection periodicly losts

2008-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Alexander Petukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm.. have found a bug with similar simptoms - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11570 but it is fixed and patch is already applied in 2.6.27 release as i see, but i have this bug on 2.6.27. Do i have to

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to init on TP-Link TL-WN861N

2008-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just loaded linux kernel 2.6.27 onto a box that I have that contains a TP-Link TLWN861N atheros minipci card. It identifes as a AR5416: 00:09.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5416 802.11abgn

Re: [ath9k-devel] Failed to init on TP-Link TL-WN861N

2008-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case we tried writing to register offset 0x8000 the value 0x00ff00ff but read 0x00ff00ef, this test will only continue if the value read was 0x00ff00ef I meant 0x00ff00ff of course. Luis

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-547, connection periodicly losts

2008-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alexander Petukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, first of all - many thanks to you guys for developing this driver! i'm owning D-Link DWA-547 card (Atheros Communications Inc. AR5416 802.11abgn Wireless PCI Adapter (rev 01)), and i'm on Debian Lenny\Sid.

Re: [ath9k-devel] proper method to change the MAC address of an ath9k device?

2008-10-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Clem Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the proper way to change the MAC address on an ath9k based device? When I do this: ip link set dev wlan0 down ip link set addr $newmac dev wlan0 ip link set dev wlan0 up ifconfig shows the new MAC

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-547, connection periodicly losts

2008-10-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/10/14 Alexander Petukhov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sad to say, there is nofing at all in log when this disconnect happents and this is what i get from wlan0 interface (192.168.0.195 - wlan0, 192.168.0.1 - router) PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.0.195

Re: [ath9k-devel] Desktop wireless card with atheros 802.11n at 5GHz frequency???

2008-10-14 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:52 AM, B Gates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone make a desktop wireless card, either PCI or PCI express, using the atheros 802.11n chipset and the 5Ghz frequency band? Don't believe there are some 5 GHz 11n capable cards being sold yet in the retail market that

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR5416 not fully working

2008-10-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:29:19PM -0700, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Bonoit! Hi there, I'm currently testing an AR5416 minipci card in a laptop (using 1, 2 or 3 antennas does not make any difference). My configuration is: - - laptop with

Re: [ath9k-devel] AR5416 not fully working

2008-10-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:58:59PM -0700, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote: I must admit I do not fully understand your reply (I've not read the 802.11n specs Neither have I but I've read a bit of it and a bit of code. I've tried to summarize what I know so far here:

Re: [ath9k-devel] Desktop wireless card with atheros 802.11n at 5GHz frequency???

2008-10-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:22:06PM -0700, Tony Espy wrote: Richard Scherping wrote: B Gates schrieb: Does anyone make a desktop wireless card, either PCI or PCI express, using the atheros 802.11n chipset and the 5Ghz frequency band? There seems to be no PCI / PCI Express card

Re: [ath9k-devel] Problem with D-link DWA-642

2008-10-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Travis Athougies wrote: I recently switched to the new linux 2.6.27 kernel in anticipation of native linux support for the atheros chipset in this card. Previously I used ndiswrapper to use the windows driver and that worked perfectly. However, with

Re: [ath9k-devel] D-Link DWA-547, connection periodicly losts

2008-10-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:02:26PM -0700, Alexander Petukhov wrote: [22977.920168] ath_tx_prepare: TX queue: 1 is full, depth: 492 You can ignore this. [20964.195016] wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:21:91:09:f9:3b - assume out of range this happents when association to AP was lost.

Re: [ath9k-devel] Monitor mode

2008-10-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Van de Velde Erwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What is the status of support for monitor mode in ath9k? Will this be included soon? I need it for work and switching between the (for me) less stable ath_pci and ath9k driver completely freezes my system, so

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k code

2008-10-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:51:37PM -0700, Jongwon Yoon wrote: Hi, I'm using kernel 2.6.27 and D-link DWA-652 card (AR5416). As some people reported, I also experienced de-authentication from the AP, even if I don't use any WPA2 or TKIP. Right after I enable the wlan0 interface, it's up for

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k code

2008-11-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:12:18PM -0800, Brian wrote: Luis, Thanks for the driver, it works pretty good here. I have only had one instance of the link failing. It has been up for over 24hours now. Unfortunately, for now, I have to use an older kernel and so used

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k : Display MAC/BB and RF version at startup (v2)

2008-11-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:47:40PM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Benoit PAPILLAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch decodes the MAC/BB version (for instance: AR5416) and the RF part version (for instance: AR5133). It has been tested on AR5416/AR5133 which

Re: [ath9k-devel] ATH9K driver development. Which kernel version?

2008-11-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:19:59PM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:04:57PM -0800, B Gates wrote: Is there a set schedule for when you send updates to be include into the development kernel? ASAP. Let me clarify this a bit -- as soon as we have patches completed

Re: [ath9k-devel] Constant AP dropout -LINKS

2008-11-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:34:56PM -0800, Brian wrote: Tyler, 1) During an email conversation with Luis he provided me with a whole series of links to good stuff, see below One of which applies to Networkmanager 2) on 4/11/08 Luis posted a patch to this list which may be applicable. I

Re: [ath9k-devel] Dirty Laundry List

2008-11-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Moving this discussion out to the public list. Guys this is our latest TODO list. We welcome people from the community to take up items here, but please let us know if you are going to work on something. I'll be tackling the MacBook pro swiotlb issue, I think this should be fixed now, but not

Re: [ath9k-devel] Dirty Laundry List

2008-11-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:23:19PM -0800, Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2008 19:32:47 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: [snip] * PCI/DMA suckage ( SWIOTLB issue on macbooks ) Taken, need a MacBook pro 3.1 tester. Why does this have to be a MacBook Pro 3.1? If the ath9k

[ath9k-devel] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dirty Laundry List]

2008-11-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Sending to the public list. - Forwarded message from Sujith Manoharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Received: from CHEXHC-01.global.atheros.com (10.12.0.100) by SC1EXHC-01.global.atheros.com (10.10.20.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.0.751.0; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:45:01

[ath9k-devel] License of changes to ath5k/ath9k

2008-11-25 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
Just a friendly reminder: For those of you who have not read yet what Signed-off-by means, specially those who are new to contributing to the Linux kernel on linux-wireless I'd like to encourage you to go and review it and read what this means. You can find it under

Re: [ath9k-devel] [ath5k-devel] License of changes to ath5k/ath9k

2008-12-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/11/26 Bob Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, BTW I had created such a script a long time ago, the files just need to be updated (so update them if you download this thingy): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel

Re: [ath9k-devel] [stable] [PATCH 0/3] ath9k: several fixes ported to 2.6.27

2008-12-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:51:19PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: This fixes a few issues seen on MacBook Pros: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 I've ported them to 2.6.27 to help with them being applied sooner

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] ath9k: Use GFP_ATOMIC when allocating TX private area

2008-12-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Sujith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: @@ -1813,10 +1815,30 @@ int ath_tx_start(struct ath_softc *sc, struct sk_buff *skb, r = ath_tx_setup_buffer(sc, bf, skb, txctl); if (r) { - spin_lock_bh(sc-sc_txbuflock

Re: [ath9k-devel] [stable] [PATCH 1/3] ath9k: Handle -ENOMEM on RX gracefully

2008-12-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:24 PM, John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:20:32PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see this patch upstream in Linus's tree. Am I just missing it and if so, do

Re: [ath9k-devel] 2.6.28-rc7-wl

2008-12-04 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:38:09PM -0800, Brian wrote: Luis, So I think the driver could be fine, it could be application specific. Will also do a search of the NX site and see if they have any problems. Will let you know how I go. I see.. What is NX? http://www.nomachine.com/

Re: [ath9k-devel] one stubborn nooby

2008-12-16 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: hello boys and girls. I'd like to try some new code if you don't mind. Last one have since is dated of 11 of December. (tar ball) git stuff doesn't compile... :( What are you talking about? Luis

Re: [ath9k-devel] one stubborn nooby

2008-12-17 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: hello boys and girls. I'd like to try some new code if you don't mind. Last one have since is dated of 11

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k for ar9102 and ar9103, OpenWRT, AP81 router hardware

2008-12-17 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:53:46AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht (hilltx) wrote: Howdy, First off, I am not a OpenWRT developer, just a participatory user. However, I'm hoping someone here is also an openwrt user and we can trade source files that I can test on the router hardware and pass

Re: [ath9k-devel] one stubborn nooby

2008-12-17 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: Luis R

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k atomic failure (i am so cool to use words i don't understand)

2008-12-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:01:00PM -0800, Dmitri Seletski wrote: Hello boys and girls. Tried yesterdays package provided by Luis. in order to catch kernel error message i have written little script that is basically loop that writes dmesg info onto my flash memory card. several times

Re: [ath9k-devel] third time not too lucky...

2008-12-19 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/12/19 Ryan Deemer ryan.dee...@gmail.com: Hi there, On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com wrote: Up to date git stuff fails... localhost compat-wireless-2.6 # make cat: /home/dimko/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release: No such file or directory It failed

Re: [ath9k-devel] Getting g working on atheros chipset

2008-12-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2008/12/19 Ryan Deemer ryan.dee...@gmail.com: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Ryan Deemer ryan.dee...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Sujith sujith.manoha...@atheros.com wrote: 2.6.26 is too old. 2.6.27.9 will have the ath9k driver, but plenty of updates have gone into

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 00/16] ath9k: first series for regulatory cleanup

2008-12-20 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com wrote: This should not have any major functional changes, its mostly cleanup stuff. I've tested HT20 on 2 GHz, will test 5 GHz tomorrow with the HT20/HT40 configurations but I figured I'll get this out today. If someone

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 00/18] ath9k: first series for regulatory cleanup

2008-12-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com wrote: This is the first series of general cleanup to get us into abandon our complex internal regulatory infrastructure. This is quite a lot of work as we rely on our own internal mode stuff and our own ath9k_channel

Re: [ath9k-devel] Atheros AR928X, Ubuntu 8.10, Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6885

2008-12-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:17 PM, John Drago jdrago_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my new Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6885 up and running with Wifi. The wireless card is detected, the ath9k drivers are loaded, and I can detect the SSID's around me. However, I just can't seem

Re: [ath9k-devel] Atheros AR928X, Ubuntu 8.10, Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6885

2008-12-23 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:11 AM, John Drago jdrago_...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 12/23/08, Luis R. Rodriguez mcg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Luis R. Rodriguez mcg...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Atheros AR928X, Ubuntu 8.10, Toshiba Satellite A355D-S6885 To: jdrago_...@yahoo.com

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v3 02/16] ath9k: use hw-conf on ath_setcurmode()

2008-12-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Sujith m.suj...@gmail.com wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: We don't have separate rate tables for ht20, ht40+, ht40-. Setting cur_rate_table just once using conf_is_ht() to any HT mode would suffice. I do see we have different rate tables for these though

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k for ar9102 and ar9103, OpenWRT, AP81 router hardware

2008-12-29 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:17:41AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht (hilltx) wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com wrote: The MODULE_LICENSE() macro has been incorrectly used before as well, this is another example. If you see the header of the file though

Re: [ath9k-devel] sensibility of driver

2008-12-30 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:47:11AM -0800, AlainBB wrote: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:45 AM, AlainBB al...@barbason.be wrote: Hi, I have a D-link DWA-547 wifi card and I try this on my debian/lenny. I Compile a new kernel 2.6.27, and it ... works

Re: [ath9k-devel] still same problem

2009-01-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Barry Green ba...@lemonpi.net wrote: Hi Dimitri, Im getting a similar problem to you, in that my computer is hanging shortly after loading ath9k and trying to set up a wireless connection. I've logged a bug report here:

Re: [ath9k-devel] [Fwd: Re: still same problem]

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2009/1/4 Dmitri Seletski drj...@gmail.com: Hello Luis. I am not looking for patch even! Last time for sake of clarity I have unloaded nvidia module(obviously successfully, since no X were runing, GDM and gnome for that matter were killed before) I use gentoo, as such there are no

Re: [ath9k-devel] Problem re-associating with AP

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Amit Sood as22_2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm using the latest compat wireless drivers for AR5416 chipset card (linksys). I've noticed that if wireless connectivity goes down it does not automatically comes up. I've to remove the module and modprobe the driver

Re: [ath9k-devel] 2.6.2{7, 8} with compat-wireless-2008-12-3{0, 1) drops link every 2-3 minutes

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:52:32PM -0800, Joseph Cheek wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year! It's about 2:30 AM here and I'm up debugging my shiny new DWA-552 AR5416+AR2133 XtremeN Desktop Adapter. Stock 2.6.28 gave me the dreaded No ProbeResp from current AP in syslog with a disconnect every

Re: [ath9k-devel] still same problem

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Jens Ott - Opteamax j...@opteamax.de wrote: Hi, Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Barry Green ba...@lemonpi.net wrote: [...] We need an oops trace of your crashes so far it seems you have not been able to get one, lets work

Re: [ath9k-devel] bugs?

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mateusz Marecki made...@gmail.com wrote: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org iwconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:xxx Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:18:4D:0D:16:BC Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Enable Bluetooth Coexistence support

2009-01-05 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:27:09PM -0800, Vasanth Thiagarajan wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:11:01AM +0530, Stefanik Gábor wrote: Broadcom's BT coex was also running correctly on Windows Vista, but it still caused problems on Linux. I dont know about Broadcom BT coex implementation

Re: [ath9k-devel] Problem re-associating with AP

2009-01-06 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:43:36AM -0800, Amit Sood wrote: Hi Luis, Card is running on managed mode with Linksys AP on 802.11g mode. What specific model AP do you have? Luis ___ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org

Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: simplify regulatory code

2009-01-13 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com wrote: Now that cfg80211 has its own regulatory infrastructure we can condense ath9k's regulatory code considerably. We only keep data we need to provide our own regulatory_hint(), regulatory_set_custom_rd

Re: [ath9k-devel] not getting 11n rates

2009-01-18 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
2009/1/17 sri ram sri@gmail.com: The card is working at the 11n rates! Although iwconfig shows only 54Mbps, FYI wireless-tools (iwconfig, etc) only supports showing legacy rates (non 802.11n rates). To get the latest MCS TX bitrate you can use the new iw. You can then do something like

Re: [ath9k-devel] modprobe ath9k == BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000001dc

2009-01-24 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote: ok. I just got a repro on 2.6.27.11 with compat-wireless-2008-12-31. it appears to occur when i bring down the interface, rmmod ath9k, and then modprobe ath9k while I am trying to rsync from or to the box. I bounce the

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k regulatory

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 07:13:02AM -0800, Luis Rodriguez wrote: To confirm you can recompile ath9k with debugging enabled you do this in compat-wireless by editing config.mk and adding a line with: CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUG=y Then recompile. Luis ___

Re: [ath9k-devel] Country code or else hidden problem

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
[ 1019.585872] ath9k :02:0a.0: PCI INT A - Link[LNKF] - GSI 11 (level, low) - IRQ 11 [ 1020.011640] ath9k: Country alpha2 being used: A This is fixed by the patch attached. From: Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:41:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: fix debug

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k regulatory

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:08:55AM -0800, Zoltan Devai wrote: 2009/1/26 Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.commailto:lrodrig...@atheros.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:35:13AM -0800, Zoltan Devai wrote: I'm using a TP-Link TL-WN861N card. What could be the reason that channels 12 and 13

Re: [ath9k-devel] Country code or else hidden problem

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
11 [ 1020.011640] ath9k: Country alpha2 being used: A This is fixed by the patch attached. From: Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:41:48 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: fix debug print on regd With debugging enabled and with ATH_DBG_REGULATORY selected we

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k regulatory

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Zoltan Devai zde...@gmail.com wrote: Whoops, here's the CC for the list. 2009/1/26 Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:08:55AM -0800, Zoltan Devai wrote: 2009/1/26 Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.commailto:lrodrig

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k regulatory

2009-01-26 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:20:04PM -0800, Lars Hardy wrote: Hi. Im using a Athereos mini-pci card (AR5416-AC1A VL4668.1C). (in a mini pci/pci adapter) Its used with hostap as my AP. After the resent regulatory domain changes, I cannot enable 802.11a anymore. I see 11A enabled, do you

Re: [ath9k-devel] Reg domain won't change and forced to CO (I'm in US)

2009-01-27 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:55:20PM -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote: I have a DWA-552 and am in the US, using the newest wireless testing as of an hour ago. I have things working from the Jan 20th wireless testing, but since then these newer ones have not let me change the reg domain (even with

Re: [ath9k-devel] Reg domain won't change and forced to CO (I'm in US)

2009-01-27 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:55:20PM -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote: I have a DWA-552 and am in the US, using the newest wireless testing as of an hour ago. I have things

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