On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:32:48PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> For the last several weeks, I've had trouble at home with my ath0
> interface.  (My house network uses WEP because until very recently, one
> of the laptops ran 3.1, which did not have WPA.)  Specifically, I saw
> constant
> 
> 	ath0: device timeout (txq 1)

Steven,

See if turning down the Tx interrupt interval helps,

sysctl -w hw.ath0.txintrperiod=1

Dave

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