On 2013/02/05 05:18, Brad Smith wrote: > 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.
Could you (and other rsu(4) users) test this updated firmware package please: http://junkpile.org/rsu-firmware-1.2.tgz Slightly related, I have problems scanning from iwn; 30 second delay with wchan "80211scan" and no scan results. Network is unusable afterwards until I down+up the interface. iwn0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205" rev 0x34: msi, MIMO 2T2R, MoW, address 8c:70:5a:62:b7:f8
