WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

[sbremal at hotmail.com]

Hello

Just recently upgraded to 8.1 and installed the 'urtw' driver for my Netgear WG111v3 USB WLAN card. All fine, systems boots, WLAN card gets IP address, network runs. And then suddenly network connection breaks down. And never recovers. Only reboot helps.

Apparently the WLAN connection moves from 'status: associated' to 'status: no carrier' and stays stuck there.

Is there any way to prevent this? (WLAN signal is OK, put the box next to the AP to test.)

Or, can you recommend a PCI/PCIe card that is proven to work reliably?


Regards
Balazs

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This is how it starts:

nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8010b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:26:18:91:13:bc
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
urtw0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
        inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
        ssid "Le Quack" channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid 00:1e:2a:5e:25:70
        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
        TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
        bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL


And this is how it gets broken and never recovers:

nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8010b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:26:18:91:13:bc
        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
        status: no carrier
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
urtw0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
        status: associated
wlan0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
        inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "Le Quack" channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g)
        country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 0
        bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
        roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL