Re: r8712u issue

[Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>]

On 19.07.2011 18:16, Ali Bahar wrote:
> 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.

Agreed! Maybe we could add a note to the documentation to make the
behaviour more obvious.

  Stefan