Re: r8712u issue

[Ali Bahar <ali@internetdog.org>]

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.

regards,
ali

> which is a much better MAC layer. That is on my TODO list, but it
> has low priority.
> 
> Larry