Comment 76 for bug 414560
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| Kunal Gangakhedkar (kunal-gangakhedkar) wrote Re: ath9k disassociates/reassociates a lot | #76 |
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@notoriousdbp,
Well, I don't think ubuntu guys can do anything for the issues here. I've tried to take up the matter with the atheros guys on ath9k-devel list and they haven't been all that helpful which doesn't go well with the whole open source nature. They just stopped responding - even for the casual status-
UNLESS the ubuntu kernel team decides to push it with the atheros guys, but I doubt it will work..
The way I see it is - for the 'wife and daughter' cases, the driver is pretty much usable - considering the typical usage pattern of casual web-surfing and chit-chatting here and there. I doubt those are right candidates for heavy wlan traffic which is the problem now. The disconnects are pretty rare these days with the current compat-wireless.
The only time the driver still craps out is when NM does a background scan while there is a transfer going on - unfortunately, the AR9285 chip seems to be one of the 'cheap' ones which requires a full reset even for a background scan and that's the main cause of the stalling transfers. And of course, the power-management implementation sucks too..
@all,
Note that the driver is still *not* fully stable - it still does crap out from time to time for some weird unknown (to me, at least) reasons. But, it is improving - slowly but steadily - so, there is hope :)
Wish I had some know-how of the 802.11-land to see where the driver needs the fixes. Unfortunately, I'm a storage guy with absolutely no understanding of 802.11.. :(