On 19.07.2011 18:16, Ali Bahar wrote: > 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. Agreed! Maybe we could add a note to the documentation to make the behaviour more obvious. Stefan -- 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
