Hi Jonathan, sorry about the slow reply. The situation is definitely better, and my recollection (it's been a while) is that it did improve around the 2.6.35 timeframe. I've only ever run unstable so I'm not sure how much testing I can provide, but if a kernel deb was installable in unstable I would be happy to give it a shot.
My impression is that the card is still kind of "iffy" for interactive use - it seems to stutter a lot and that may be related to the network scanning, but it's good enough that I haven't bothered to pursue anything further. Thanks! On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 01:24:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Chris, > > chris+deb...@chiappa.net wrote: > > > The > > ath5k driver apparently uses lots of cpu and causes long pauses in > > connectivity when the wireless networks available are being > > scanned...since network manager does this a lot, it leads to > > persistent and annoying networking hangs, particularly noticable in > > interactive sessions (ie, ssh). > > Upstream, John W. Linville wrote: > > > I think this situation has been vastly improved between the original report > > and > > 2.6.35. I'm going to close this now -- please reopen if you truly believe a > > serious issue remains. > > What kernel are you using these days? Can you confirm the result John > mentioned? Do you think it would be worth pursuing a fix for this in > squeeze, and if so, would you be able to test patches if we provide > them? > > Thanks for a pleasant report, > Jonathan > -- ..ooOO ch...@chiappa.net | My opinions are my own OOoo.. ..ooOO chris.chia...@oracle.com | and certainly not those OOoo.. ..ooOO http://www.chiappa.net/~chris/ | of my employer OOoo.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120402170457.ga17...@snurgle.org
