Hi Matt,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Matt Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I am using v3.0.13 kernel for my desktop. Wireless modules is AR9485
> [168c:0032], Marilyn. When I press F12 function key to enable/disable
> the wifi, it would take seconds, more than expected, to ON of OFF the
> LED.

you are talking about the LED in the rfkill status  and your card is
an inbuilt one ?

> I trace the codes, found the gpio.c in ath9k is using the polling
> rfkill in every 5 seconds. Would it be the reason to cause this issue
> happen?  Or any recommendation for this issue ?

yes thats the reason, its using a polling mechanism. yet its working
fine for my external card, verified with script

while true
do
sudo ifconfig wlanX up
sleep 1
done

can you please verify/compare with
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download/stable#compat-wireless_3.0_stable_releases
and the latest compat


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shafi
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