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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Vincent Brillault <gentoo@lerya.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warnings with ASUS PCE-N15 (RTL8188CE)
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:24:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513B7E58.9000505@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130309113222.GA3009@Fea.lerya.net>

On 03/09/2013 05:32 AM, Vincent Brillault wrote:
> Thanks for your email, please find my comments inline
>
> On Fri  8.Mar'13 at 19:53:15 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> The firmware in all the cards that use the rtlwifi family of drivers its own
>> rate control. The drivers do not pay any attention to any rate-setting calls
>> from user space.
> Do you mean that those warnings are only cosmetic and I should not care
> about those ?

You can safely ignore them, but I wonder why I have not seen them. What is the 
configuration of your AP? Is it g or n?

>> I also see reason 7 disconnects; however, with NetworkManager, the network is
>> reconnects. If you are using ifup or similar method, it probably does not reconnect.
> It does reconnect, but some higher level daemon (e.g. openvpn) suffer
> from those disconnect/reconnect.

I have been doing tests on rtl8723ae for the past week, and I do not get those 
disconnects. Obviously, I need to find what differs between the two drivers in 
that respect. I suspect something in the rekeying part of TKIP.

Larry



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-09 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 19:29 Warnings with ASUS PCE-N15 (RTL8188CE) Vincent Brillault
2013-03-08 21:58 ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-09  1:53   ` Larry Finger
2013-03-09 11:32     ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-09 18:24       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2013-03-11 18:38         ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-13  8:00           ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-17 14:12             ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-25 18:29               ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-25 19:11                 ` Larry Finger
2013-03-25 19:51                   ` Vincent Brillault
2013-03-25 20:05                     ` Larry Finger
2013-04-09  9:47                       ` Vincent Brillault
2013-04-09 15:32                         ` Larry Finger
2013-04-09 16:04                           ` Vincent Brillault
2013-04-09 18:03                             ` Larry Finger

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