Re: r8712u issue

[Ali Bahar <ali@internetdog.org>]

Hi Stefan,


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:15:16AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 07/15/2011 09:42 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote:
> >Hi Larry,
> >
> >I'm wondering if you're looking into any issues concerning the
> >driver. The problem I'm currently facing is that the driver does not
> >recognize any network disconnects. So whenever the network goes down the
> >driver will still report it's connected and thus doesn't reconnect when
> >the network is up again.

I have seen some behaviour in my testing that is not dissimilar to
this. But I was going to tackle this in a week or two. This code's
state-tracking needs some more work, IIRC.



> >
> >Btw I'm using a 0bda:8172 usb adapter with 2.6.39.
> >Thanks for your help!
> 
> I need more details. What distro? How are you controlling the
> network? If NetworkManager, what version?
> 
> When this situation occurs, what is output to the dmesg log?
> 
> I do not see this situation on my system/device. Whenever the
> connection is dropped, NM reconnects.
> 
> There are a recent patches that might have an effect. Can you build your own kernel?

Larry,
the state flags (bup and bDriverStopped) are playing a role here, of
course. IIRC bDriverStopped still has some clean-up outstanding. I'll
look into my logs.

regards,
ali