On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 12:26:47AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:04:30 -0500 > > From: Brad Smith <[email protected]> > > > > To a certain extent this seems to make rsu(3) work a little better, but > > now I am seeing ``rsu0: could not send join command'' messages which never > > happened before. > > Hmm, I wonder which of the two rsu_fw_cmd() calls in rsu_join_bss() is > failing. > > > The other issue I'm experiencing is when the driver does a scan > > either from the kernel doing so or from me issuing ifconfig scan > > will result in rsu_site_survey() failing (rsu0: could not send site > > survey command) after a few invocations of the function to issue the > > fw command. Over all though rsu(3) is still mainly unusable at least > > for the chipset in the adapter I am using; it is way too unreliable. > > It might be worth trying a different firmware. Looks like the Linux > people had some issues with some firmware versions judging from the > log messages in their git firmware repo. You'll want rtl8712u.bin > from: > > > <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi;hb=HEAD> With this newer firmware I can do many manual scans in a row and the over all stability of connections associated with an AP is more stable too. Also IPv6 seems to work consistently now. It was cutting in and and out before as if multicast traffic was being dropped. It is not 100% perfect as I was still able to reproduce the site survey errors after quite a few scans but compared to the current firmware package it seems to be quite an improvement.
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