if_ural in 6.0-BETA1 [really ral problem, NOT ural]

[Sam Leffler]

Ádám Szilveszter dr. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Erik Winge wrote on 2005.07.18 12:53:42:
> 
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I see similar symptoms with two ral(4) based cards (
> Conceptronic C54RC) in two laptops, one running 6.0-BETA, the other 
> 7.0-CURRENT, both from 16th July. I have not yet been able to determine 
> under what conditions the random dissassociations occur, but no network 
> traffic is one way to more reliably trigger it. After the disassociation 
> occurs, wpa_supplicant starts scanning, even finds the AP a couple of 
> times, but fails to reassociate until killed and restarted. The AP is a 
> Linksys WRT54G with original Linksys firmware, and I am using a 
> WPA-PSK-based setup.

None of my ral cards work at all in 11g station mode.  They authenticate 
but cannot associate.  My ap's reject the associate request with error 
status 6.  I believe the problem is mis-setting of IFS paramters.  I've 
had no time to look carefully.

	Sam