Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Full text console error message spam

[Karl Goetz]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:21:44 +1000
Russell Currey <address@hidden> wrote:

> I was running a full text console (Ctrl Alt F1) on my Eee PC 701 with 
> gnufs' custom kernel.  I started to get a message spamming my
> console, that doesn't seem to make any sense.
> 
> I couldn't copy-paste it, but it looked like this:
> 
> [    67.676450] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2422 MHz)
> [    67.676527] ath5k phy0: ath5k_chan_set: unable to reset channel 
> (2422 MHz)
> 
> It didn't happen for hours, and then it did, and now it won't stop.  
> It's not constant spam, I'm fairly sure it's periodic.  What does it 
> mean?  Is it a hardware issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ruscur

Could be a driver bug. Thats my guess, from the error. Otherwise its
telling you something useful (its not connecting correctly on 2422MHz
and is not resetting correctly).

Dare I say it though, I'd consider this a user support question.
kk

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