Subject: Re: ath0 problems with PM code?
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 12/14/2007 13:27:25
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:53:30 -0500 (EST)
"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I used to have serious tx timeout problems with ath0.  After I added
> >
> > 	hw.ath0.txintrperiod=1
> >
> > to sysctl.conf, that stopped.  That's also the case when I run the
> > PM branch.  *However*...  After a suspend/resume cycle, I started
> > seeing the problem; in fact, the device eventually became
> > unusable.  Is it possible that some state isn't being saved?  (I
> > tried reissuing the sysctl, of course, and setting it to 5 and then
> > 1; none of this helped.)
> >
> > I only have one data point on this thus far, unlike the battery and
> > AC power situations, so it may be coincidence.  (This is all on a
> > T42.)
> 
> Make sure you have if_ath_pci r1.25.
> 
Hmm -- I had 1.22.  I'll rebuild.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb