[GRLUG] wifi connection drops under Ubuntu

[mikemol at gmail.com]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:11 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:58 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
>> > root at djr-laptop:~# iwconfig wlan0
>> >          Link Quality=26/70  Signal level=-84 dBm
> [snip]
>> > [ 1927.216729] ath9k: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024 AR_DIAG_SW=0x40000020
>>
>> Sounds like the ath9k driver is having problems?
>
> Yes, that was the problem.  I upgraded linux-backports-modules-karmic and
> linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic.  The netbook is now
> showing ~80% signal strength.
>
> As a bonus I switched to WPA since I realized I posted my WEP key and
> SSID.  :-)

Yeah, I noticed that. :P

Now to go over my wardriving logs and see if I was ever in your area. :P

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:wq

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