Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:06:29 +0300 From: Niki Denev <nike_d@cytexbg.com> To: Erik Winge <erik.winge@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ural in 6.0-BETA1 Message-ID: <42DB9B45.9010305@cytexbg.com> In-Reply-To: <4cf221cc050718035328cfb071@mail.gmail.com> References: <4cf221cc050717045319c1f3cf@mail.gmail.com> <42DA9332.2030200@errno.com> <4cf221cc050718035328cfb071@mail.gmail.com>
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Erik Winge wrote: > On 7/17/05, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote: > >>Erik Winge wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>After upgrading to 6.0-BETA1 I have started using an Asus ural-bases >>>wireless card. >>> >>>Besides lower performance than with Windows, this driver seems to have >>>some stability issues. I keep getting "Corrupted MAC on >>>input"-messages from scp when copying files. The files I have been >>>testing with are about 5MB in size, and the problem interrupts every >>>one of 4-5 upload attempts. >> >>The driver has no tx rate control support and defaults to 1Mb/s so you >>must explicitly set the tx rate to get any reasonable performance. >>However even when locked to 54M on an 11g channel I never saw tcp >>netperf performance much more than ~15Mb/s with a strong signal. I >>never saw data corruption but mostly was testing wpa. >> >>In general I wasn't impressed with the device and the driver definitely >>needs work. Hard to recommend it. > > > I experience more weirdness. It seems the card will disassociate from > the ap if there is no network activity for some time. > > If I use the network, for instance streaming audio or having a > mailprogram check mail regularly, everything works fine. However if I > close all programs, and leave the computer alone for some minutes, it > will lose the network connection. ifconfig then reports status:no > carrier > > I have tried running "wpa_cli reassociate", but it doesn't find my ap, > and I have to kill wpa_supplicant and restart it to reconnect. Is > this a driver problem, or could it possibly be wpa_supplicant? > > Erik Winge I'm not really sure, so this is just a guess, but can this be caused by the power management of the card? Does it dissociate when its configured with '-powersave' flag? --niki
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