Have had some success in working around this issue. As in danjlawson's comment, it involves using different wifi drivers for the Atheros hardware, although it does not involve blacklisting & I am actually using a version of Madwifi ath_pci.
In short, using directions from here: http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo I downloaded & compiled Madwifi drivers from the source code available here: http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/ Have tried & had success with both madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6 & madwifi-hal- testing (currently using the testing version). Kernel panics with high network load are now virtually gone. (Still get KP from time to time, but rare now and might be due to other issues.) Additionally, wifi data transfer rates / speeds are now no longer significantly slower than they should be. Also fixed issue with not being able to connect to WPA2 networks, and the random disappearance / unloading (?) of the wifi driver. The only downside to this solution is that the drivers need recompiled with every kernel update. I keep a copy of the .tar.gz source code and the instructions locally, b/c no Internet access after kernel update. A minor inconvenience. If anyone has an Acer Aspire One (w/Atheros wireless hardware) and is experiencing these kind of serious wifi issues, I suggest you check out this solution. -- UNR Freeze & Flashing Caps Lock Indicator when D/Ling Files/Binaries on Acer Aspire One AOA150 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
