Re: MWIFIEX still unstable after two years on MS Surface Pro 3

["René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.com>]

Hi Marek,

thank you for your blazingly fast reply.

On 12/05/2017 12:41 PM, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:06 PM, René Rebe <rene@exactcode.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I write to start a discussion about the state of the mwifiex driver.
>> For over two years many other and me wait that the driver finally becomes
>> "stable". However, even with kernel 4.14.2 it still fails after some
>> minutes, or latest after some hours. With various stray errors in the system
>> log:
>>
>> Dec  5 09:50:50 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: MWIFIEX
>> VERSION: mwifiex 1.0 (15.68.7.p119)
>> Dec  5 09:50:50 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: driver_version =
>> mwifiex 1.0 (15.68.7.p119)
>>
>> Dec  5 10:38:28 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: trying to
>> associate to 'XXX' bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>> Dec  5 10:38:28 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: associated
>> to bssid xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx successfully
>> ...
>> Dec  5 10:42:51 surface3 kernel: mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: Firmware wakeup
>> failed
> As workaround you can disable powersave for wifi (using iw command)
> and test it should resolve an issue (at least it fixes for me).

  13:28:18 up  1:52,

Thanks, so far so good. Are you on a Surface, too?
Does this also make mwifiex survive a suspend/resume cycle?
(will try later, when I got work done ;-)

Greetings,
	Rene
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