On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:16:53PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 7 September 2014 19:16, Thiago Farina <tfrans...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Nathan Whitehorn > >> <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> I've been having some issues with connection stability in urtwn for > >>> several > >>> months. The usual symptom is that after some period of time the connection > >>> will apparently stall. If I'm running ping continuously, for instance, it > >>> will at some point stop receiving replies. Then, sometime later, > >>> immediately > >>> if I use the "reassociate" command in wpa_cli, the connection will fix > >>> itself and all the packets I didn't get earlier get delivered at once: > >>> hundreds of ping replies, for instance, some with time stamps minutes in > >>> the > >>> past. No data is actually lost, though. > >>> > >>> I think the issue is that the driver does not actually support powersave > >>> mode (maybe it should?) but reports to the AP that it does: > >>> > >>>> ifconfig wlan0 list sta (this is on the AP) > >>> ADDR AID CHAN RATE RSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS FLAG > >>> 80:1f:02:cc:47:a9 1 11 11M 8.5 0 5526 55712 EPS AE RSN > >>> > >>> I don't know enough about wireless to fix this, but the AP waiting for a > >>> powersave poll and never getting one seems consistent with the problem. > >> > >> I think what you are relating here is what I observed recently too. > >> Sorry, I'm new to FreeBSD. Just installed it recently, and I noticed > >> that after I left it idle (I went to do something for some hours) for > >> some time it lost the connection. Only rebooting makes it connect > >> again to my network. > > > > Which NIC are you seeing this on? > > > Mine is urtwn0: Realtek RTL8187L from my Gateway laptop.
Typo? urtw(4) supports Realtek RTL8187L, not urtwn(4). > -- > Thiago Farina Kevin _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"