Comment 33 for bug 341952

I am not sure if all have the same bug. I can confirm mine easily through the follow three steps.

1.While downloading the 2.6.29 source code to get the driver my system freezes two times. So starting a big download.
2.Ping your router. Most of the time at least 10% of the packets got lost with 2.6.28. No lost ping with 2.6.29 so far while one or two packets are pretty normal for wlan I guess.
3.Check if the freezes are gone with 2.6.29 kernel from here http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.29/ .

Linux linux 2.6.29-020629-generic #020629 SMP Tue Mar 24 11:23:53 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

04:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device [168c:2051]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
 Region 0: Memory at e7100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
  Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
  Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
 Kernel modules: ath5k
 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
 Kernel modules: ath5k