On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Karl Goetz<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:21:44 +1000 > Russell Currey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was running a full text console (Ctrl Alt F1) on my Eee PC 701 with >> gnufs' custom kernel. I started to get a message spamming my >> console, that doesn't seem to make any sense. >> >> I couldn't copy-paste it, but it looked like this: >> >> [ 67.676450] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2422 MHz) >> [ 67.676527] ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel >> (2422 MHz) >> >> It didn't happen for hours, and then it did, and now it won't stop. >> It's not constant spam, I'm fairly sure it's periodic. What does it >> mean? Is it a hardware issue? >> >> Thanks, >> Ruscur > > Could be a driver bug. Thats my guess, from the error. Otherwise its > telling you something useful (its not connecting correctly on 2422MHz > and is not resetting correctly).
I can confirm that this a common bug seen on some atheros wireless card based systems. I used to have the same issue back in the kernel version 2.6.27, but it improved after 2.6.28 and onwards on my hardware. However, i hear that it still happens on some systems. > Dare I say it though, I'd consider this a user support question. Right. Ali _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
