Re: sporadic link failure

Hi Gabi,

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, ftpMaster wrote:

> iwconfig indicates:
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"mED-AP1"  Nickname:"okuwlan"
>           Mode:Managed  Channel:6  Access Point: 00:90:4B:0B:9F:7E
>           Bit Rate=11Mb/s
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Encryption key:1234-5678-90ab-cdef-0123-45   Security
> mode:restricted
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:10  Signal level:35  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> After some time (1/4-2hours) the link is lost (see kernel log) and the
> client gets in peer mode???
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"okuwlan"  Nickname:"okuwlan"
>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Channel:10  Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>           RTS thr=1536 B   Fragment thr=1536 B
>           Encryption key:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
> There are some failures in the kernel log (regarding usb bulk transfers).
> May the link failure be connected with the JE driver or the lenght of the
> USB cable?

I miss the kernel log you refered to ...?

Strange thing is that the driver seems to have reconfigured into its
default param set. It will only do this if it is removed from and
re-loaded into the kernel.

/Jörg