Hi Stefan, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:15:16AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 07/15/2011 09:42 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote: > >Hi Larry, > > > >I'm wondering if you're looking into any issues concerning the > >driver. The problem I'm currently facing is that the driver does not > >recognize any network disconnects. So whenever the network goes down the > >driver will still report it's connected and thus doesn't reconnect when > >the network is up again. I have seen some behaviour in my testing that is not dissimilar to this. But I was going to tackle this in a week or two. This code's state-tracking needs some more work, IIRC. > > > >Btw I'm using a 0bda:8172 usb adapter with 2.6.39. > >Thanks for your help! > > I need more details. What distro? How are you controlling the > network? If NetworkManager, what version? > > When this situation occurs, what is output to the dmesg log? > > I do not see this situation on my system/device. Whenever the > connection is dropped, NM reconnects. > > There are a recent patches that might have an effect. Can you build your own kernel? Larry, the state flags (bup and bDriverStopped) are playing a role here, of course. IIRC bDriverStopped still has some clean-up outstanding. I'll look into my logs. regards, ali -- 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
