[Madwifi-users] Problem with ath5k driver after kernel 2.6.31 upgrade

[Robin A. <ro...@bi...>]

I recently upgraded a laptop running x86 Gentoo to be current and at the same 
time, upgraded the kernel from 2.6.28 to 2.6.31. I had been using the the 
ath5k drivers with my D-Link AirPlus DWL-G650 (AR5212/AR5213 chipset) without 
problems for some time. After the kernel upgrade, when I ssh'ed into the 
laptop I would get a logon header, a few 100 bytes when I typed a command and 
then the session froze. Inbound telnet sessions had the same problem. Outbound 
sessions were very slow and kept timing-out (e.g., nfs mounts).

Reverting to 2.6.28, the problem disappeared. I rebuilt 2.6.31 with exactly 
the same config as 2.6.28 but there was no change. Then I inactivated wlan0, 
activated eth0 and everything was fine, so I am pretty sure the problem is 
with the ath5k drivers. I also tried the madwifi-trunk-r4097-20090920 
snapshot: that was better in so far as it did not hang, but performance was 
extremely sluggish. I would like to upgrade the kernel for other reasons, so 
how do I proceed with this? Output from "iwconfig wlan0" is similar for both 
kernels and no messages appear in the syslogs.

TIA
-Robin
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