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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Vladimir Rusinov |
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<vladimir@×××××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I switched from madwifi-ng to ath5k when I switched from kernel 2.6.28 |
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>> to 2.6.29 and my wifi speed is unusably slow when the CPU speed is |
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>> scaled down. I am talking about trying to ssh into my laptop taking |
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>> literally MINUTES to respond when it is running at 800MHz but being |
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>> instant when it is running at 2000MHz. If I am emerging or doing |
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>> anything to run the CPU, the wifi speed is fine. When I am |
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>> interactively using the laptop it's not as much of an issue because |
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>> the laptop itself is perfectly normal in its responsiveness, but the |
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>> wifi practically dies when the CPU slows down. I tried with cpudyn and |
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>> without (using kernel ondemand governor). |
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>> Is anyone else using ath5k on a laptop and having this problem? I |
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>> don't know if it is the wifi driver, the kernel, or something else. I |
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>> did about 3 months worth of updates all at once, so that makes it a |
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>> nice big mess for isolating the cause. :) |
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> Hi. |
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> I'm using ath5k and kernel conservative governor and it everything work ok |
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> for me. Wireless is not very fast, but it seems it is hardware problem. |
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> gentoo-sources-2.6.28-r1 |
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Okay, thanks for the info. My chipset is AR5414 and |
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gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1. When I'm downloading and change governor to |
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performance I can see immediate wifi speed increase from 2KiB/s to |
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more than 1000KiB/s. But, even then, performance is bad and unreliable |
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compared to mafwifi-ng. I guess I should switch back. Maybe I'll ask |
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ath5k-users list first (but it seems dead). |
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