Re: Another dropped connection with iwl3945 and NM-0.6.5 on FC7

[Christian Deckelmann <deckel suse de>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:47:04PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> 
> > Looks like the driver decided that the AP had gone away.  It probably
> > missed too many beacons or probe responses due to the RF heavy
> > environment or something?  Could need a driver tweak.
> 
> Maybe.  It's the iwl3945.  Maybe it was scanning? ;)
> The IETF really is a great testbed.  Frustrating as a user,
> but a great testbed.

That reminds me on a problem I have seen a few weeks ago.
Something (maybe NM) triggered a scan every few (1-3) minutes.
The iwl3945 driver had (or still has) a bug where no traffic has been 
transfered while it was scanning.
That caused a roaming event.
IIRC NM even logged that in /var/log/NetworkManager.
The scan also showed up in iwevent.

IIRC iwl has been fixed to not interrupt traffic while scanning.


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