Re: Netgear MA101 Rev. A dies after minutes.

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Chaffinch wrote:

> I having trouble with an MA101 Rev. A under 2.4.20 Gentoo Linux. I can get a
> connection in ad-hoc mode and all seems fine but after a couple of minutes or
> less the connection seems to die. I have looked through the mailing archives
> and see there was a similiar problem from last April, only with a rev B. At
> the time there didn't seem a resolution.
>
> I took the latest CVS snapshot to make sure I was up to date, firmware is
> 0.90.0 (can this be updated?). I have looked through the archives and tried
> all the tricks (more debug etc) but get nothing useful.

there is no newer fw version for Intersil radio chipsets than 0.90.0-44,
as Atmel ceased to support them.

What's the peer device?

How do you recognize that the link is dead?

How can you recover:
- restart the driver "ifconfig wlan0 down; ifconfig wlan0 up"
- re-plug the device

If the link is dead, does the peer still see beacons from the MA101A?

Does "iwpriv wlan0 set_debug -1" show anything on the MA101's side in the
syslog, apart from the

wlan0: PRIV_IOCTL_SET_DEBUG input 3: -1 -> xffffffff
wlan0: PRIV_IOCTL_SET_DEBUG old 0x.... new 0xfffffff
wlan0: netif running .. queue_stopped .. carrier_ok ..

(what are the values in the last line) ?
If you can't even see these lines, please check your /etc/syslog.conf for
the destination of kern.debug messages.

/Jörg