Hi, i installed Fedora 15 on my Lenovo G475 notebook, which has a Atheros AR9285 wireless adapter. if i turn on the wireless card in my bios, my system hangs after boot everytime. then i disable the wireless, my system works well. i've tried different kernel, eg. 2.6.38.6, 2.6.38.7, 2.6.39.1, all of them have the same problem. i've report the bug to Redhat, but it seems that they cann't solve it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707276 and i've tried the methods which are described on debian and archlinux bug lists. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611946 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20735 but the problem still there... Flos
another thread, maybe the same problem... https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144
Possibly related too: https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2011-June/thread.html#6250
There is also patch-workoround available: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=130768848626799&w=2
Hi Stanislaw, mine is FC15, so i cannot use your srpm or rpm directory. i downloaded the patch you told us and the compat-wireless-2010-08-21.tar.gz which is stable enough as pepole on the archlinux buzilla said. i patched the compat-wireless source and made some small changes, and then i build the modules for my 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.x86_64 kernel. i installed the modules and enabled my ar9285 card again, so far, it works smoothly! my patch for FC15: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697157 thanks! Flos
Hi all, if i start my notebook for the first time after completely poweroff, although i've using my patched compat-wireless 'compat-wireless-2010-08-21', the system still hangs... if i reboot into my WinXP, then reboot to FC15, the system will not freeze. very strange! so the problem do not completely resolve. Flos
Created attachment 65992 [details] 0001-ath9k-skip-config_pci_powersave-quirks-if-PCIe-port-.patch Please test this patch. I plan to post it as fix for that bug. I'm looking for confirmation if it works.
Posted another patches: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/73834
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.1-rc1: commit d4930086bdd0c08a8b3a4d66a9c702297cb74a99 Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Date: Fri Jul 29 15:59:08 2011 +0200 ath9k: skip ->config_pci_powersave() if PCIe port has ASPM disabled