Comment 10 for bug 439723
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| Ralf-Peter (ralfpeter-rohbeck) wrote | #10 |
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I have this issue with Karmic (2.6.31-16) on an Eee PC 1005HA.
There are two separate bugs:
1. ath9k stops working. What you typically see is that it can't reconnect after it lost connection (I can reproduce that 100% by running my microwave) but it can also happen as a result of the "DMA failed to stop in 10 ms" problem. What you see is
Jan 10 17:52:58 eeepc kernel: [20874.572107] wlan0: direct probe to AP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out
The AP is a NetGear WNDR3700 FWIW.
sudo rmmod ath9k;sudo modprobe ath9k
fixes this.
2. Also, nm-applet gives up and displays the WEP code entry box (erroneously but maybe the return code from the driver is wrong), but even if you enter the correct WEP code it won't reconnect. This is fixed most easily by killing and restarting nm-applet:
pkill nm-applet;nm-applet &