Camilo, Tony, etc:

Please read this article and try what they're suggesting. It has to do
with an APSM commit which has negatively impacted some users (eg by
causing hangs.) Sound familiar? :)

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=2

(Obviously with my ath9k patch backed out.)

Thanks,


Adrian

On 11 June 2011 14:42, Camilo Mesias <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11 June 2011 02:47, Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>>>> Let's just try the patch I emailed you to apply to wireless-testing.
>>>> Hopefully that restores functionality enough and we can punt it to the
>>>> Atheros guys to do some further investigation.
>>>
>>> That change seems to have fixed it! I've managed at least 3
>>> suspend/resumes and an rmmod/modprobe without crashing. Perhaps a little
>>> early to say it's definitely fixed, but I don't think I've ever managed
>>> more than 2 attempts in a row without a "bad" version crashing.
>>
>> Excellent! Let's see if it fixes it for other users.
>> Camilo? :)
>
> I had some problems with the wireless-testing software but managed to
> rebuild the current kernel from source (2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686) then
> commented out the relevant driver part and changed the
> AR9285_WA_DEFAULT value too. I made sure I was running the rebuilt
> modules and... it works. I suspended and resumed just fine.
>
> I'm not sure how I can quickly get a clean fix, I think this might be
> tweakable with the patch:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compact_wireless.html
>
> Or I could just stay on my bodged kernel for a while (although this
> doesn't help anyone else)
>
> Thanks for all the help, it looks like my netbook is useful again :D
>
> -Cam
>
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