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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:39:40 -0700
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From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
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Subject: Re: Ongoing problems with the "ath" interface - is any relief in 
 sight??
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>FWIW, I've had constant issues for the past few months or so with my
>atheros based XG-621s in several Soekris boxes running hostap. I was
>constantly seeing "ath0: device timeout" errors which would seize
>the card and the only was to revive it was to reboot the box. I upgraded
>to 5354M+ Aries 2 4G cards but the problem remained. Upgrading to 6.1-STABLE
>a few days ago seemed to have taken care of my problems. It's been
>4 days now and so far so good.

Interesting... I'm having the reverse problem: With the 6.1-STABLE 
CVS as of July 27th, I'm getting many of these ath interface errors. 
Because of this, I reverted to the June 21st version, in which the 
errors occur less frequently (but still occasionally).

	Ross.