ath9k crashes machine when joining wireless network

[Parag Warudkar]

I have a AR5008 PCI Wireless card in my workstation, and booting Jaunty RC Kernel (+ all updates) and trying to join the WPA network always results in a totally frozen machine.

I upgraded the kernel to mainline 2.6.30-rc2 and I was able to connect and work with the wireless network without any problem.

[Parag Warudkar (parag-warudkar)]

This is present in the jaunty release kernel as well - I have to upgrade to mainline to get working wireless.

[nerome (b-living)]

I can confirm this behavior. When trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2 network the system totally freezes with AR5008 PCI Wireless Card. On jaunty release kernel.

[Parag Warudkar (parag-warudkar)]

Confirming since 2 different people have this issue.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Can you try installing the linux-backports-modules-jaunty package to see if it helps. It contains an updated compat-wireless stack. Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Parag Warudkar (parag-warudkar)]

On 5/8/09, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you try installing the linux-backports-modules-jaunty package to see
> if it helps. It contains an updated compat-wireless stack. Please let
> us know your results. Thanks.

Works for me after installing linux-backports-modules-jaunty.

[Luis R. Rodriguez (mcgrof)]

This can be closed.