[Mageia-dev] No wifi after last kernel upgrade

[Thomas Backlund]

03.04.2012 16:35, Oliver Burger skrev:
> Hi there,
> 
> after last kernel upgrade (3.3.1-1.mga2) I have no more wifi.
> Booting into the previous kernel (3.3.0-2.mga2) gets it working again.
> Wobo reported that same problem in the forum.
> See also https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2172
> 
> Can anybody confirm?
> According to wobo's report it depends on the wifi chip, mine is an 
> AR9285, Wobo has the same one. But he reports no problems on another 
> device using a bcm4312 chip.
> 
> Oliver
> 

Yep. It's known...

This patch (in upstream 3.3.1) broke it:
>From c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:57:04 +0100
Subject: ath9k: fix going to full-sleep on PS idle

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>

commit c1afdaff90538ef085b756454f12b29575411214 upstream.


Atheros guys are checking it out..


--
Thomas