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[Bug 600942] Re: 168c:0024 Atheros AR5008 on Ubuntu 10.04 with either ath9k or ndiswrapper drivers cause excessive CPU wakeup
Lucid is no more a supported version now
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
** Package changed: linux (Fedora) => libselinux (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: libselinux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Package changed: linux (openSUSE) => dpkg (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
168c:0024 Atheros AR5008 on Ubuntu 10.04 with either ath9k or
ndiswrapper drivers cause excessive CPU wakeup
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in libselinux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug 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. 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).
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