Issues with urtwn

[Kevin Lo]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:16:53PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 7 September 2014 19:16, Thiago Farina <tfransosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
> >> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> I've been having some issues with connection stability in urtwn for several
> >>> months. The usual symptom is that after some period of time the connection
> >>> will apparently stall. If I'm running ping continuously, for instance, it
> >>> will at some point stop receiving replies. Then, sometime later, immediately
> >>> if I use the "reassociate" command in wpa_cli, the connection will fix
> >>> itself and all the packets I didn't get earlier get delivered at once:
> >>> hundreds of ping replies, for instance, some with time stamps minutes in the
> >>> past. No data is actually lost, though.
> >>>
> >>> I think the issue is that the driver does not actually support powersave
> >>> mode (maybe it should?) but reports to the AP that it does:
> >>>
> >>>> ifconfig wlan0 list sta (this is on the AP)
> >>> ADDR               AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE  TXSEQ  RXSEQ CAPS FLAG
> >>> 80:1f:02:cc:47:a9    1   11  11M  8.5    0   5526  55712 EPS AE      RSN
> >>>
> >>> I don't know enough about wireless to fix this, but the AP waiting for a
> >>> powersave poll and never getting one seems consistent with the problem.
> >>
> >> I think what you are relating here is what I observed recently too.
> >> Sorry, I'm new to FreeBSD. Just installed it recently, and I noticed
> >> that after I left it idle (I went to do something for some hours) for
> >> some time it lost the connection. Only rebooting makes it connect
> >> again to my network.
> >
> > Which NIC are you seeing this on?
> >
> Mine is urtwn0: Realtek RTL8187L from my Gateway laptop.

Typo?  urtw(4) supports Realtek RTL8187L, not urtwn(4).

> --
> Thiago Farina

	Kevin