if_ural in 6.0-BETA1

[Erik Winge]

On 7/17/05, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> Erik Winge wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After upgrading to 6.0-BETA1 I have started using an Asus ural-bases
> > wireless card.
> >
> > Besides lower performance than with Windows, this driver seems to have
> > some stability issues. I keep getting "Corrupted MAC on
> > input"-messages from scp when copying files. The files I have been
> > testing with are about 5MB in size, and the problem interrupts every
> > one of 4-5 upload attempts.
> 
> The driver has no tx rate control support and defaults to 1Mb/s so you
> must explicitly set the tx rate to get any reasonable performance.
> However even when locked to 54M on an 11g channel I never saw tcp
> netperf performance much more than ~15Mb/s with a strong signal.  I
> never saw data corruption but mostly was testing wpa.
> 
> In general I wasn't impressed with the device and the driver definitely
> needs work.  Hard to recommend it.

I experience more weirdness. It seems the card will disassociate from
the ap if there is no network activity for some time.

If I use the network, for instance streaming audio or having a
mailprogram check mail regularly, everything works fine. However if I
close all programs, and leave the computer alone for some minutes, it
will lose the network connection. ifconfig then reports status:no
carrier

I have tried running "wpa_cli reassociate", but it doesn't find my ap,
and I have to  kill wpa_supplicant and restart it to reconnect. Is
this a driver problem, or could it possibly be wpa_supplicant?

Erik Winge