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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Full text console error message spam
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Full text console error message spam |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:36:35 +0930 |
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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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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