if_ural in 6.0-BETA1 [really ral problem, NOT ural]
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Mon Jul 18 19:06:03 GMT 2005
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
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