[urtw] Wifi link dying randomly. reboot required to reconnect.

Arnaud Lacombe lacombar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 02:41:24 UTC 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:54:33 PM Chuck Burns wrote:
> <snip>
>> I'm not sure how to rebuild just the module with that option URTW_DEBUG
>> enabled.. I'm being told by some to just add the device to my kernel config
>> along with the line "option URTW_DEBUG" .. but if there's a better way, let
>> me know please.
>>
>> Also, I suppose that means if I want the "any" I sysctl
>> hw.usb.urtw.debug=0xffffffff right? Still a bit green with regards to
>> debugging.
>
> I wound up adding "#define URTW_DEBUG" to the top of the if_urtw.c file and
> make install'ing the module from the proper subdirectory..
>
that's correct too :)

> Also, upon setting the sysctl to 0xffffffff, it shows that it set the value to
> -1, is this correct?
>
yes, the variable is exposed as being signed (-1 is encoded 0xffffffff
on 32bit platform using two's complement), but  accessed as a
bitfield.

You should now have message on the console, don't you ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud

> Chuck
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