[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#562981: rt2860-source: connection drops - debian kernel 2.6.32

[Timothee Besset]

Package: rt2860-source
Severity: important

On latest sid kernel:
Linux plageis 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 17 06:29:18 UTC 2009
x86_64 GNU/Linux

My wireless connection suddenly drops after 20 to 30 minutes of usage,
especially when I run the program synergy between my machines (if I am
not running synergy it can take many hours between every drops).

In the syslog I see:
ERROR!!! RTMPCancelTimer failed, Timer hasn't been initialize!
right as the connection drops

at that point only solution is:
ifdown wlan0 ; rmmod rt2860sta ; sleep 2 ; modprobe rt2860sta ; ifup wlan0

I am not sure where else to report this, I found this package from
http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta and the vendor's support page returns a
404 (http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash