On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:52 -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:13 -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > Hi, here is the updated version of these two patches that fix the > > $SUBJECT issue. > > > > I attach these (in case mailer mangles them), and reply with patches. > > > > Tested both with low quality signal, and beacon loss. > > Lack of TX is found, every 30 seconds now, and quite reliable. > > Lack of beacons, triggers probe like it did every 2 seconds. > > Thanks! > > I've been running with this for two hours now with no disconnects. This > is where before the patches I would get disconnected after a few > minutes. I did get two "No probe response from AP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > after 500ms, try 1" messages in my log. This is normal, or at least can be normal, I patched the driver to display this message, when there is a probe timeout, but instead of disconnect, it retries, currently 5 times, but this can be even further increased is necessarily. (these messages are only in logs when verbose mac debugging is enabled) I don't know exactly why probes aren't answered, but I strongly suspect that my AP sometimes 'goes out to lunch' and then answers, since typically after a failed probe it sends many replies. (Or it could be some buffering done by iwl3945 microcode). I currently can't monitor the connection from outside, but as soon as I can I see whether the above is true. Nevertheless if signal quality isn't great, there are valid reasons for probe loss, and it shouldn't cause all the fuzz (and since I use WPA2, every reconnection causes whole WPA handshake to be preformed, and this takes at least 2 seconds, and if a reconnection happens each 5 seconds, it gets very very annoying, and almost unusable. And polling every 2 seconds, this way or another, I think is too much anyway. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky > > Reinette > > -- 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
