Bug 9012

Summary:	RTL8187 - Losing essid
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	msilveira (msilveira)
Component:	network-wireless	Assignee:	drivers_network-wireless (drivers_network-wireless)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	blocking
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.23-rc6	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description msilveira@linuxbr.com 2007-09-12 23:24:30 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur:
Distribution: Slackware 12.0
Hardware Environment: M2N32-SLI Deluxe, "onboard" RTL8187
Software Environment:
Problem Description: It seems like the driver is losing the essid, i have to perform a loop to reassign the essid every X seconds to keep the network up. Some persistent ping test is enough to perform the tests.

Steps to reproduce:
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid "testingthis" channel 3
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted "s:vdd7333trE444n0f"

To get the network functional again, perform 'iwconfig wlan0 essid "testingthis"'

Comment 1 msilveira@linuxbr.com 2007-09-16 00:04:26 UTC

This worked well: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187
Kernel 2.6.22.6 with the separate modules from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net(which seems to be exactly the one in the current kernel tree) didn't work too.

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2007-10-30 13:36:05 UTC

Can you post the contents of /var/log/messages when you get disconnected?

It is possible that your AP is disconnecting you for inactivity.  Are you using wpa_supplicant or NetworkManager?  These should try to reconnect for you automatically.