Atheros 5424/2424 device periodically gets into state with 'no carrier' or 'device timeout'

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Can you update to -HEAD? I've fixed a whole bunch of bugs in -HEAD with the
ath driver.

There are also a bunch more debugging tools we can use.

Thanks,



-adrian



On 25 October 2013 00:10, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> I have a laptop with this device which periodically spontaneously loses
> connection, gets into 'no carrier' state.
> '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' doesn't help. I believe it brings it down and up
> too fast.
> '/etc/rc.d/netif stop && sleep 3 && /etc/rc.d/netif start' usually helps.
> But this command sometimes also leaves it into 'no career' state.
> I also saw the situation when after the hot reboot ath0 came up with
> messages 'device timeout', and was never usable.
>
> Yuri
>
>
> 9.2-STABLE
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> mem 0x8b100000-0x8b10ffff irq 18 at device 0.0
> on pci4
> ath0: AR2425 mac 14.2 RF5424 phy 7.0
>
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