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SubjectRe: Still some problems with the rt2x00 driver
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Hi,

> There are two strange things that I've noticed, though and that I
> feel need to be fixed:

For both cases:
Is there anything in the log regading the drivers or mac80211?

Ivo

> 1 - the rt63 driver used by a PCMCIA card DWL-G630 model has, for
> many kernels (from 2.6.24 and up to and including kernel 2.6.27, as
> shipped by Ubuntu for ia32), shown a strange behavior: after
> everything is working correctly, the network simply becomes
> unavailable, with the gnome network monitor showing that the card has
> no signal. If I issue the command "iwconfig ra0 ap any", for example,
> the card starts working again.
>
> (Actually, I put this on a cron job to be executed every minute, but
> even then, there are time windows where the card is not working). I'm
> not in front of the notebook (a very old Armada V300 that my parents
> are using for production), so I don't know if the card looses
> association with the Access Point or not. I can check that, if nobody
> else reported this problem yet.
>
> 2 - the rt2500usb driver that I use on a very old iBook G3 (powerpc)
> also works fine and has a similar, but not identical behaviour: the
> DWL-G122 USB stick that I have works fine once associated and when it
> is transferring data. Once I leave the network unused for, say, 2
> minutes, the connection with the AP is dropped. Here, also, issuing
> "iwconfig wlan0 ap any" makes it work again.
>
> Notice the difference in both cases: with the PCMCIA/ia32 case, no
> matter if there is traffic on the network or not, the the connection
> is interrupted. With the USB/powerpc case, if there is traffic, the
> connection remains working fine.
>
> > Note that I am not going to push it to 2.6.26 since I don't know if
> > the
> > patch will cause problems in other parts of the driver.
>
> There's no problem. I can compile vanilla kernels from kernel.org
> without any problems.
>
>
> Thanks for your kind help, Rogério Brito.
>


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