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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:24:24 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Warnings with ASUS PCE-N15 (RTL8188CE)
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On 03/09/2013 05:32 AM, Vincent Brillault wrote:
> Thanks for your email, please find my comments inline
>
> On Fri  8.Mar'13 at 19:53:15 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> The firmware in all the cards that use the rtlwifi family of drivers its own
>> rate control. The drivers do not pay any attention to any rate-setting calls
>> from user space.
> Do you mean that those warnings are only cosmetic and I should not care
> about those ?

You can safely ignore them, but I wonder why I have not seen them. What is the 
configuration of your AP? Is it g or n?

>> I also see reason 7 disconnects; however, with NetworkManager, the network is
>> reconnects. If you are using ifup or similar method, it probably does not reconnect.
> It does reconnect, but some higher level daemon (e.g. openvpn) suffer
> from those disconnect/reconnect.

I have been doing tests on rtl8723ae for the past week, and I do not get those 
disconnects. Obviously, I need to find what differs between the two drivers in 
that respect. I suspect something in the rekeying part of TKIP.

Larry