On 19.07.2011 19:32, Ali Bahar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:16:36PM +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote: >> 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. > > There's documentation?! ;-| > > ... The following could be an option: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl819x Good idea! > > Larry's the author, and so it's _his_ call. _I_ am just tackling > whatever problems I run into; at the moment, that happens to be the > r8712u driver. Right, my statement wasn't directed strictly to you, I was just thinking of how to improve the situation. :) 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
