On 26-3-2017 19:43, Dennis New wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 11:00:12 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> ... provide information regarding what specific card you have. The >> appropriate stanza from "lspci -nn" has that information. >> >> I do not normally run a b43 wireless NIC, but I did pull out an >> ancient laptop that uses the PCMCIA version of a BCM4318 with PCI ID >> of 14e4:4318. Running kernel 4.10.0, I do see periodic drops. My >> period is 120 sec and the drop is a reason 7, not reason 3 as you >> see. Another difference is that I see the drops with kernel 4.8.0 as >> well. With the earlier kernel, the drop period is closer to 60 sec, >> but it is not as regular. > > Huh. I also have that BCM4318 card, but not PCMCIA. > > 06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02) > Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Aspire 3022WLMi, 5024WLMi, 5020 [1468:0311] > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 > Memory at c0304000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] > Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge > > These past few days I seem to have had some "success" by simply > putting a 60 second sleep in my bootup scripts before bringing up > my wlan0 interface. (Ie. I haven't been getting any deauths after > doing this.) Interesting. I assume you are using wpa_supplicant so can you make a supplicant log of that with and without the 60 second sleep. Regards, Arend
