This sounds like a known ath9k bug that is due to power management problems. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538792 On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Reuben Budiardja <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have an ASUS N51 series with Atheros AR9285 card that I just put F12 on. > Today I brought the notebook on campus that basically has open wifi (we had to > register our Mac address with our ID to be on the network, but otherwise it's > open, no WEP, WPA or anything). > > The problem is that I keep getting my network dropped intermittently. Every > few tens of second or order of minutes my network would get dropped, and then > get connected again. It's enough that I can't work with it, since I work by > doing programming on remote machine via SSH. > > During all this time, Network manager shows reasonable wireless strength, that > fluctuates between 2 bars to full bars. > > Here's what /sbin/lspci shows as my wireless card: > Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network > Adapter > > And looking at the output /sbin/lsmod, I'm guessing it's using "ath9k" module. > > I've search the web and archive and found few reports here and there about > something similar, but I couldn't find anything definite, or any workaround. > > Does anyone have any idea that can help me ? Any workaround, even with > different / older version of Fedora ? > > Thank you for any respond. > RDB > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand https://netllama.linux-sxs.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
