On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 07/19/2011 08:24 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote: > > > >So far I can say that with scan_ssid=1 after rebooting the AP the > >connection is properly re-established. Looks promising. > > Your results make sense. The driver is fairly passive in all this. > It gets TX requests from the MAC layer, and passes received data > back up to that layer. It seems likely that the MAC layer built into > r8712u is not keeping track of missing responses, or it is not > probing the AP. In either case, it would not be productive to devote > any effort to fixing that part when either using NetworkManager or > setting scan_ssid for wpa_supplicant establishes periodic scans. > When these fail to get response from the AP, the softmac code will > respond, as you see. > > The ultimate fix will be to convert to the driver to use mac80211, Just what I've been thinking lately. I didn't think it very worthwhile to invest too much into fixing the miscellany. regards, ali > which is a much better MAC layer. That is on my TODO list, but it > has low priority. > > Larry -- 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
