WG111v3 + 'urtw' = status: no carrier

[Adrian Chadd]

What's logged by the kernel? try 'dmesg'



-adrian


On 29 July 2013 09:01,  <sbremal at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Just recently upgraded to 8.1 and installed the 'urtw' driver for my Netgear WG111v3 USB WLAN card. All fine, systems boots, WLAN card gets IP address, network runs. And then suddenly network connection breaks down. And never recovers. Only reboot helps.
>
> Apparently the WLAN connection moves from 'status: associated' to 'status: no carrier' and stays stuck there.
>
> Is there any way to prevent this? (WLAN signal is OK, put the box next to the AP to test.)
>
> Or, can you recommend a PCI/PCIe card that is proven to work reliably?
>
> Regards
> Balazs
>
> ---
>
> This is how it starts:
>
> nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8010b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:26:18:91:13:bc
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> urtw0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>         status: associated
> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
>         inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>         status: associated
>         ssid "Le Quack" channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid 00:1e:2a:5e:25:70
>         country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
>         TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
>         bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
>
> And this is how it gets broken and never recovers:
>
> nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8010b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,TSO4,LINKSTATE>
>         ether 00:26:18:91:13:bc
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>         nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> urtw0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
>         status: associated
> wlan0: flags=8c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:1b:2f:ce:e2:72
>         inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid "Le Quack" channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g)
>         country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF txpower 0
>         bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
>         roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
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