Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Still some problems with the rt2x00 driver | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:42:09 +0100 | From | Ivo van Doorn <> |
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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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