try ifconfig ral0 down; ifconfig ral0 up. that's a different thing and I suspect is a problem either in the driver or net80211. I have seen this on ral occasionally and have now seen something similar or the same on an acx which used to be stable; the only change at all with the acx was moving it to an environment with more other wireless devices around.
unfortunately the places where I can actually get any diagnostic output are not places where this problem occurs... On 2009/04/27 11:46, Chris Jones wrote: > > > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2009-04-26, Tom <tdmurp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2009-04-26. Stuart Henderson wrote: > >> On 2009-04-25, Tom wrote: > >>>> I have a ral(4) acting as a hostap. The problems began since > >>>> ugrading from Feb 28th snapshot to April 10th (and higher). I have a > >>>> Soekris 5501. I bought 2 different ral(4) PCI cards, one is a RT2661 > >>>> and the other is a RT2860 (Planex GW-DS3300N). The RT2661 actually > >>>> lasts longer than the RT2860. When I have the RT2860 in the box, it > >>>> doesn't matter whether I use no encryption, WEP, WPA1 or WPA2. The box > >>>> locks up without any kind of drop into ddb. When the RT2661 is in the > >>>> machine, it will stay up a day, maybe two tops before it locks solid. > >>> try a different psu, especially if you have the lower-power of the ones > >>> that soekris sell. > >> Hi, > >> > >> I got the higher psu of the ones soekris sell. It's 12V, 3A. That > >> should be enough > >> for the 2.5" laptop disk plus the PCI card I run, right? > > > > usually, yes, but there have been so many reported strange problems > > with soekris boxes that went away after switching PSU, it's a good thing > > to check early on. > > > > I'll try moving my alix with RT2860 to -current to see if I can > > replicate though.. > > > I picked up a 12V, 3A PSU for my net4501 and it didn't fix the issue I > am having running my ral(4) card in hostap mode on 4.4-stable. > > ral0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Ralink RT2860" rev 0x00: irq 11, address > 00:0e:8e:20:84:94 > ral0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0102), RF RT2850 (2T3R) > > I'm having a different issue where the clients are connecting > momentarily and then disconnecting. > > When I have a moment I'm going to throw this card in a spare desktop I > have to rule out an issue with the hardware or driver under 4.4-stable. > I'll update the list when I test this. > > Cheers, > -C
