Bug 134591
| Summary: | [ral] ral(4) driver frequently loses carrier (on RT2560) | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | J.R. Oldroyd <fbsd> |
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-wireless (Nobody) <wireless> |
| Status: | Open --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 7.2-PRERELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped Reassign to the wireless list |
The ral(4) inferface repeatedly goes down and up even when in close proximity to the access-point. ifconfig ral0 ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:11:09:xx:xx:xx inet6 fe80::211:9ff:fexx:xxxx%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet6 2001:5c0:1100:f103:211:9ff:fexx:xxxx prefixlen 64 autoconf inet 192.168.3.67 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps) status: associated ssid xx channel 6 (2437 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:16:b6:xx:xx:xx authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL boot stuff: May 10 07:11:29 xx kernel: ral0: <Ralink Technology RT2560> mem 0xdfffe000-0xdfffffff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 May 10 07:11:29 xx kernel: ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 May 10 07:11:29 xx kernel: ral0: Ethernet address: 00:11:09:xx:xx:xx May 10 07:11:29 xx kernel: ral0: [ITHREAD] How-To-Repeat: 1. enable ral(4) driver. 2. wait a while. 3. look at syslog: May 16 12:02:14 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to DOWN May 16 12:02:17 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to UP May 16 12:02:27 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to DOWN May 16 12:02:55 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to UP May 16 12:22:56 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to DOWN May 16 12:23:11 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to UP May 16 12:28:49 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to DOWN May 16 12:29:05 xx kernel: ral0: link state changed to UP