[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#503881: Bug#503881: #503881: rt2860-source: Wireless infinitely disconnects and reconnects

[Daniel Moerner]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You didn't say what is the wireless connection type
> - open/wep/wpa/wpa2?

Sorry for underspecifying, wpa/tkip is what I'm using.

>
> "iwpriv ra0 driverVer" would confirm the exact version of the driver
> in use. Eric Cooper had similar problems with a stale ralink driver
> that was installed in drivers/net/wireless, taking precedence over the
> driver installed by the rt2860-modules packages in drivers/wireless.

I have experienced the problem with 1.8.0.0 and 1.7.1.1.

>
> Since version 1.8.0.0-2, the -modules package installs the driver in
> drives/net/wireless too so you may want to try it.
>

I have not yet experienced the problem with the new package, although
I'm not sure why the different path would matter.

I am beginning to suspect that what I experienced was a result of a
weird interaction between the package resolvconf and the rt2860sta
driver.  I purged resolvconf for a different reason from my system
three days ago and this problem has occurred only once, instead of
several times a day, and thus far not at all with 1.8.0.0-2.  If I
can't reproduce it in the future, I'll just close it, since there
isn't enough information to make it worthwhile to reassign it to
resolvconf.

Thanks,
Daniel

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Daniel Moerner <dmoerner at gmail.com>