From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 12:06:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B111616A41C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: from mail.interbgc.com (mx01.interbgc.com [217.9.224.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A75B943D45 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 9102 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 12:06:19 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by keeper.interbgc.com by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4374. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:SA:0(-2.6/8.0):. Processed in 3.923562 secs); 18 Jul 2005 12:06:19 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0 Received: from 213-240-205-57.1697748.ddns.cablebg.net (HELO tormentor.totalterror.net) (213.240.205.57) by mx01.interbgc.com with SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 12:06:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 28883 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2005 12:06:14 -0000 Received: from qmail by qscan (mail filter); 18 Jul 2005 12:06:14 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.3?) (10.0.0.3) by tormentor.totalterror.net with SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 12:06:14 -0000 Message-ID: <42DB9B45.9010305@cytexbg.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:06:29 +0300 From: Niki Denev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Winge References: <4cf221cc050717045319c1f3cf@mail.gmail.com> <42DA9332.2030200@errno.com> <4cf221cc050718035328cfb071@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4cf221cc050718035328cfb071@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_ural in 6.0-BETA1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:21 -0000 Erik Winge wrote: > On 7/17/05, Sam Leffler 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