[Bug 590756] New: rt2860 driven card (in Asus Eee PC 100h) seems to initially choose weak APs instead the one with the best signal quality
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590756 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590756#c0 Summary: rt2860 driven card (in Asus Eee PC 100h) seems to initially choose weak APs instead the one with the best signal quality Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nice@titanic.nyme.hu QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; hu-HU; rv:1.9.2.0) Gecko/20100115 SUSE/3.6.0-1.2 Firefox/3.6 I'm using Asus Eee 1000h with a card to be used with the rt2860sta driver. The most used SSID is eduroam with many "visible" APs in the neighborhood. Interestingly, during the connection process my machine usually chooses an AP with a very weak signal strangth and quality, and after finishing the connection it almost immediately roams to a better (usually the best) one. I didn't observer this strange behaviour with my othe notebook using an iwl3945 driver wireless card. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #2 from Tamás Németh
Can you test this with the latest 11.2 kernel from Kernel:openSUSE-11.2? I applied a bunch of rt28x0 fixes on 3 March.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-11.2/openSUSE_11....
Is it the FACTORY kernel mentioned in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548542#c55 ? I'd like to carry out the necessary test for both bugreports. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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it works again, however, now it's unable to join AD-HOC networks.
Do I understand correctly, that this is a regression? Could you specify which was the last working kernel? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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it works again, however, now it's unable to join AD-HOC networks.
Do I understand correctly, that this is a regression? Could you specify which was the last working kernel?
In fact I didn't do a comprehensive kernel survey, 2.6.34-37-desktop was the first one, I tried to join ad-hoc networks with. Now I tried with 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop (the current official kernel of openSUSE 11.2) just for this bugreport, but that version is also unable to handle ad-hoc nets. Maybe, the rt2860 driver wasn't able to join ad-hoc networks so far. :( However, my other notebook with the iwl3945 driver is able to join ad-hoc networks. Tahnk you in advance. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Maybe, the rt2860 driver wasn't able to join ad-hoc networks so far. :(
The driver doesn't seem to support ad-hoc properly. Isn't rt28x0 working anyhow better? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Is there a driver called rt28x0 in the standard openSUSE 11.3 kernel?
Sorry, I meant rt2800usb from rt2x00 family. You have to unload rt2860 before you modprobe rt2800usb. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Maybe, the rt2860 driver wasn't able to join ad-hoc networks so far. :(
The driver doesn't seem to support ad-hoc properly. Isn't rt28x0 working anyhow better?
OK, I reverted to 2.6.34.7-0.5 and loaded rt2800usb, and I had to find out sadly that this driver behaves the exact same was as the other. It's still unable to join ad-hoc networks, and initially chooses impossibly weak APs when more are available with the same SSID :(((( -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Maybe, the rt2860 driver wasn't able to join ad-hoc networks so far. :(
The driver doesn't seem to support ad-hoc properly. Isn't rt28x0 working anyhow better?
OK, I reverted to 2.6.34.7-0.5 and loaded rt2800usb, and I had to find out sadly that this driver behaves the exact same was as the other.
Sorry to misinform you. Finnally I found out that the rt2800usb card doesn't drive my card at all. The identical behavior was caused by the fact that the rt2860sta drive suddenly came back by autoload :((( -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #16 from Tamás Németh
Could you try to install compat-wireless package and reboot?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/
I think the ad-hoc support is broken in the driver.
I thought I have to upgrade to the kernel version 2.6.37, so I simply upgraded to 11.4. There's a national holiday in Hungary now. I will be able to test it next wednesday. Can I expect ad-hoc support with the metioned driver? Anyway ad-hoc is still unsupported in plain 11.4 final. In addition my nokia phone became unsupported as USB 3G modem (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673992), too, so I don't have any internet access at home on my EEe PC. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Could you try to install compat-wireless package and reboot?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/
I think the ad-hoc support is broken in the driver.
Sorry, it seems to me that upgrading to 11.4 was a bad decision. Can you create the compat-wireless package for openSUSE 11.4? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #18 from Tamás Németh
Could you try to install compat-wireless package and reboot?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/
I think the ad-hoc support is broken in the driver.
Anyway, after upgrading to openSUSE 11.4 final I tried kernel-desktop-2.6.37.4-3.1.i586.rpm from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-11.4/openSUSE_114 . Ad-hoc networks still do not work. What else can I try on openSUSE 11.4. Should I open a separate report for Ad-hoc networks or is there any already? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Should I open a separate report for Ad-hoc networks or is there any already?
I don't think there is any. But I doubt it will help to create an entry in bugzilla. It's broken upstream and needs to be fixed there. I'm closing this as the original problem seems to be gone. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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