I have an RTL8188CUS dongle. My test setup is a Beaglebone black w/ wireless-testing of a few days ago on a debian rootfs. It is set up as an unencrypted station. The AP uses a Ubiquiti SR71-A (AR9160), has been in service for some time, is running compat-wireless-2014-05-22 and isn't suspect. After scp'ing several 10MB files in either direction, traffic stops. Well, not all the traffic. If I ping the AP, Wireshark on a separate computer and monitor interface shows that the ping from the station gets on the air and so does the AP's ack, but no ping reply is sent by the AP. ARP broadcasts from the station are ack'ed and responded to, just not the pings. If I run tcpdump on the station's interface, it shows the ARP packets and their response and any other broadcast traffic, just not the ping or reply. Lastly, this only occurs in HT mode. I've compared the Wireshark dumps of the pings from before the interface hangs up and after and can't see any difference. I repeated this using an X86_64 machine and the same usb dongle. I have two of the dongles and they behave identically. Further, I've compiled the Realtek driver (8192cu) and it doesn't exhibit this behavior. Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
