[Mageia-dev] No wifi after last kernel upgrade

[Thomas Backlund]

03.04.2012 16:59, Thomas Backlund skrev:
> 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..
> 

and here is a kernel-3.3.1-1.1.mga2 to test with the above patch reverted

http://tmb.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.1-ath9k-revert/
http://tmb2.mine.nu/Mageia/Cauldron/bugs/3.3.1-ath9k-revert/

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Thomas