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Subject: Re: Sometimes rtl8187 stops sending/receiving packets under load
From: Olivier =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cr=EAte?= <olivier.crete@ocrete.ca>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:32:38 -0400
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On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:01 -0400, Olivier Cr=EAte wrote:
> Hi,
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> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:18 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > I have 3 different devices that use either the RTL8187L or RTL8187B chi=
ps and=20
> > the rtl8187 driver. None of them have any problems of the type you desc=
ribe,=20
> > thus you may have either a screwy AP, or excessive interference. Have y=
ou tried=20
> > changing the channel to another of the set of 1, 6, 11, or have you tri=
ed with a=20
> > different AP?
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> I tried with a different AP (some DLink with the stock firmware) instead
> of the WRT54Gv2 and the driver also fails after a while... Seems like an
> annoying issue to debug.. I'm tempted to believe that maybe it's an
> hardware issue maybe, I should do some stress testing in Windows maybe.

I've also noticed that just before it all goes horribly wrong, I start
missing events from my USB HID mouse.. Maybe its a usb host controller
bug or something.. hard to debug.


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Olivier Cr=EAte
olivier.crete@ocrete.ca

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