Activity log for bug #600942

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-07-02 08:37:02 Ivan Potapenko bug added bug
2010-07-02 08:37:25 Ivan Potapenko attachment added dmesg.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51278241/dmesg.log
2010-07-02 08:37:42 Ivan Potapenko attachment added uname-a.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51278246/uname-a.log
2010-07-02 08:38:23 Ivan Potapenko attachment added version.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51278297/version.log
2010-07-02 08:38:36 Ivan Potapenko attachment added lspci-vnvn.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51278300/lspci-vnvn.log
2010-07-02 08:39:53 Ivan Potapenko bug task added linux (openSUSE)
2010-07-02 08:40:11 Ivan Potapenko bug task added linux (Fedora)
2010-07-02 08:41:31 Ivan Potapenko tags ath9k kernel-bug ndiswrapper wireless
2010-07-04 12:06:08 Ivan Potapenko description I have recently tried to upgrade my netbook with an Atheros AR5008 Wifi card from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04. This was done by a clean install (not the Ubuntu dist-upgrade procedure). Everything worked fine except for the wireless card. When using 8.04 I used ndiswrapper with great success. Now, both the ndiswrapper and ath9k drivers give me a very strange problem: They wake up CPU excessively making the whole system slow and unresponsive. This usually happens after I have connected to a network and try to transfer any substantial amount of data. If you take a look at powertop output you can see that wakeup number usually is below approximately 1500 (even with heavy usage of wifi with Ubuntu 8.04). However on Lucid I get often numbers ranging from 5000 to 15000 which is ridiculously high. Once the excessive wakeups have begun, no iwconfig power saving configuration or even rmmod-ing the driver helps. Installing wireless from backports does not alleviate the problem either. This is also present on most other major distributions (OpenSUSE, Fedora Core) as well as Ubuntu derivatives (Mint etc). The only exception is Arch which uses a newer kernel version (which may or may not have something to do with the problem). I have recently tried to upgrade my netbook (edit: it is a Notus A12) with an Atheros AR5008 Wifi card from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 (edit: lsusb -v is now attached below). This was done by a clean install (not the Ubuntu dist-upgrade procedure). Everything worked fine except for the wireless card. When using 8.04 I used ndiswrapper with great success. Now, both the ndiswrapper and ath9k drivers give me a very strange problem: They wake up CPU excessively making the whole system slow and unresponsive. This usually happens after I have connected to a network and try to transfer any substantial amount of data. If you take a look at powertop output you can see that wakeup number usually is below approximately 1500 (even with heavy usage of wifi with Ubuntu 8.04). However on Lucid I get often numbers ranging from 5000 to 15000 which is ridiculously high. Once the excessive wakeups have begun, no iwconfig power saving configuration or even rmmod-ing the driver helps. Installing wireless from backports does not alleviate the problem either. This is also present on most other major distributions (OpenSUSE, Fedora Core) as well as Ubuntu derivatives (Mint etc). The only exception is Arch which uses a newer kernel version (which may or may not have something to do with the problem).
2010-07-04 12:12:45 Ivan Potapenko description I have recently tried to upgrade my netbook (edit: it is a Notus A12) with an Atheros AR5008 Wifi card from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 (edit: lsusb -v is now attached below). This was done by a clean install (not the Ubuntu dist-upgrade procedure). Everything worked fine except for the wireless card. When using 8.04 I used ndiswrapper with great success. Now, both the ndiswrapper and ath9k drivers give me a very strange problem: They wake up CPU excessively making the whole system slow and unresponsive. This usually happens after I have connected to a network and try to transfer any substantial amount of data. If you take a look at powertop output you can see that wakeup number usually is below approximately 1500 (even with heavy usage of wifi with Ubuntu 8.04). However on Lucid I get often numbers ranging from 5000 to 15000 which is ridiculously high. Once the excessive wakeups have begun, no iwconfig power saving configuration or even rmmod-ing the driver helps. Installing wireless from backports does not alleviate the problem either. This is also present on most other major distributions (OpenSUSE, Fedora Core) as well as Ubuntu derivatives (Mint etc). The only exception is Arch which uses a newer kernel version (which may or may not have something to do with the problem). I have recently tried to upgrade my netbook (edit: it is a Notus A12) with an Atheros AR5008 Wifi card from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04. This was done by a clean install (not the Ubuntu dist-upgrade procedure). Everything worked fine except for the wireless card. When using 8.04 I used ndiswrapper with great success. Now, both the ndiswrapper and ath9k drivers give me a very strange problem: They wake up CPU excessively making the whole system slow and unresponsive. This usually happens after I have connected to a network and try to transfer any substantial amount of data. If you take a look at powertop output you can see that wakeup number usually is below approximately 1500 (even with heavy usage of wifi with Ubuntu 8.04). However on Lucid I get often numbers ranging from 5000 to 15000 which is ridiculously high. Once the excessive wakeups have begun, no iwconfig power saving configuration or even rmmod-ing the driver helps. Installing wireless from backports does not alleviate the problem either. This is also present on most other major distributions (OpenSUSE, Fedora Core) as well as Ubuntu derivatives (Mint etc). The only exception is Arch which uses a newer kernel version (which may or may not have something to do with the problem).
2010-07-06 16:31:53 Jeremy Foshee tags ath9k kernel-bug ndiswrapper wireless ath9k kernel-bug kj-triage ndiswrapper wireless
2010-09-02 04:27:44 Darth Mowzy bug added subscriber Darth Mowzy
2010-12-03 23:54:10 Brad Figg tags ath9k kernel-bug kj-triage ndiswrapper wireless acpi-apic ath9k kernel-bug kj-triage ndiswrapper wireless
2011-05-04 02:40:54 Brad Figg linux (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2012-07-24 22:17:13 penalvch tags acpi-apic ath9k kernel-bug kj-triage ndiswrapper wireless acpi-apic ath9k kernel-bug kernel-wifi kj-triage ndiswrapper needs-upstream-testing
2012-07-24 22:17:55 penalvch tags acpi-apic ath9k kernel-bug kernel-wifi kj-triage ndiswrapper needs-upstream-testing acpi-apic kernel-wifi kj-triage needs-upstream-testing
2012-07-24 22:18:24 penalvch summary Atheros AR5008 on Ubuntu 10.04 with either ath9k or ndiswrapper drivers cause excessive CPU wakeup 168c:0024 Atheros AR5008 on Ubuntu 10.04 with either ath9k or ndiswrapper drivers cause excessive CPU wakeup
2012-07-24 22:18:43 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2012-07-24 22:19:11 penalvch linux (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2015-05-01 09:09:41 dino99 linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Invalid
2015-05-01 09:14:20 dino99 affects linux (Fedora) libselinux (Ubuntu)
2015-05-01 09:14:20 dino99 libselinux (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2015-05-01 09:15:08 dino99 affects linux (openSUSE) dpkg (Ubuntu)
2015-05-01 09:15:08 dino99 dpkg (Ubuntu): status New Invalid