Message-ID: <50B3DD38.5060808@monom.org> (sfid-20121126_222101_264869_73726C64)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:20:56 +0100
From: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
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To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
CC: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
	Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>,
	Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>, brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/22] brcmsmac: Tx rework and expanded debug/trace
 support
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On 26.11.2012 20:36, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:35:28AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>>> My 'test' setup is following: I downloaded a larger file and let a youtube
>>> video play. With tracing enabled the download and the playback did work nicely.
>>>
>>> Without tracing enabled playing back only a youtube video was 'triggering'
>>> the problem. It downloads a few seconds of content in a burst and then the playback
>>> starts. Under normal conditions, the app will continue downloading the video at a
>>> lower rate. But this normally doesn't happen right now. Often it will just stop
>>> working and often the connection is completely blocked, e.g. pinging a host
>>> wont work.
>>
>> I'll see if I can reproduce, but if it's specific to the AP then I may
>> not have any luck. Don't expect to hear much from me until next week
>> though; I'm on holiday starting today and will be visiting family.
>
> It seems I'm unable to reproduce the problem with any of the APs
> available to me, unfortunately.

I tried it again with disabled the TX trace but I can't reproduce it 
either. Well, I am sick of this AP and I might just get a better one 
(which should be fairly simple).

Thanks for looking into this.

cheers,
daniel