Hi, On Monday, January 23, 2012 05:59:18 PM Brad Bellomo wrote: > I have a NetGear wireless n draft dongle that uses the carl9170 driver > on an Arch system. This module works for anywhere from several > minutes to several hours. Then I have lose all ability to use TCP/IP > over my wireless until I modprobe -r carl9170, modprobe carl9170, and > reconnect my network. Although ar9170usb worked fine, I would rather > troubleshoot this than revert to a deprecated driver, or at worst > case, buy a better supported device. I do not see anything relevant > in my dmesg log. Does this device log errors somewhere else? Is > carl9170 actively being developed? I don't mind digging into code > myself, but if no one is working on carl9170, I would rather buy new > hardware (recommendations appreciated) than spend time fixing > something with no future. There's not a lot of debug information in your post. e.g.: what's the exact hardware? From where is the carl9170 driver coming from, [kernel-version, or compat-wireless?] what's the firmware version? Furthermore, a bit of background information about your setup wouldn't hurt either. [e.g.: What AP (and firmware)? Do you use HT20/HT40? which frequency band and encryption setting]. When the device "stops". Do you know if it fails to receive any data or if it has problems with outgoing traffic? Also what is wpa_supplicant doing at the time when it fails? The driver itself exports a debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy$X/carl9170 Of course, you are welcome to debug and run experiments on your own. If you come across something peculiar (which can be reproduced) then let me know. Regards, Chr -- 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
