Re: if_ural in 6.0-BETA1

Erik Winge wrote:
> On 7/17/05, Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:
> 
>>Erik Winge wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>After upgrading to 6.0-BETA1 I have started using an Asus ural-bases
>>>wireless card.
>>>
>>>Besides lower performance than with Windows, this driver seems to have
>>>some stability issues. I keep getting "Corrupted MAC on
>>>input"-messages from scp when copying files. The files I have been
>>>testing with are about 5MB in size, and the problem interrupts every
>>>one of 4-5 upload attempts.
>>
>>The driver has no tx rate control support and defaults to 1Mb/s so you
>>must explicitly set the tx rate to get any reasonable performance.
>>However even when locked to 54M on an 11g channel I never saw tcp
>>netperf performance much more than ~15Mb/s with a strong signal.  I
>>never saw data corruption but mostly was testing wpa.
>>
>>In general I wasn't impressed with the device and the driver definitely
>>needs work.  Hard to recommend it.
> 
> 
> I experience more weirdness. It seems the card will disassociate from
> the ap if there is no network activity for some time.
> 
> If I use the network, for instance streaming audio or having a
> mailprogram check mail regularly, everything works fine. However if I
> close all programs, and leave the computer alone for some minutes, it
> will lose the network connection. ifconfig then reports status:no
> carrier
> 
> I have tried running "wpa_cli reassociate", but it doesn't find my ap,
> and I have to  kill wpa_supplicant and restart it to reconnect. Is
> this a driver problem, or could it possibly be wpa_supplicant?
> 
> Erik Winge

I'm not really sure, so this is just a guess, but can this be caused by
the power management of the card?
Does it dissociate when its configured with '-powersave' flag?

--niki