Fedora 9 with 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.PAE, system boots up and wlan0 (rt61pci) is configured on startup: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 (capab=0x31 status=0 aid=4) wlan0: associated wlan0: no IPv6 routers present After various period of time kernel is loosing wireless connection (here was after few days): wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 - assume out of range # ifdown wlan0 # ifup wlan0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authentication with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 timed out phy0 -> rt2x00queue_write_tx_frame: Error - Arrived at non-free entry in the non-full queue 0. Please file bug report to http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com. I'm unable to re-associate with AP and kernel is freezing in less that a minute.
Ah, good to see you over here now. :-) So, can you try a rawhide kernel? yum --enablerepo=development update kernel Can you recreate the issue with that kernel?
I've done `yum --enablerepo=rawhide update kernel-PAE' and we will see what will happened. I'll be in touch.
On rawhide kernel updates are quite often. Noting here that currently I'm running on 2.6.27.3-39.fc10.i686.PAE. So far so good, but problem was occurring after few days anyway.
No luck. Today I've found my machine without internet connection. wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 - assume out of range # ifdown wlan0 # ifup wlan0 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: associate with AP 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:15:6d:54:45:e6 (capab=0x31 status=0 aid=4) wlan0: associated So I can see progress here. No error this time about "non-free entry in the non-full queue" and kernel did not freeze. Internet is reachable, packets are going through wireless card. I've just updated to newer kernel from rawhide, so I rebooted machine and now I'm running on 2.6.27.4-47.rc3.fc10.i686.PAE.
I would like to say, that I prefer to stay on Fedora 9. So if you have any kernels which I could test for F9 I would be happy. I was running Fedora 10 for a month before and was having problem in subject too. Personally I would like to stay on F9.
You might try an f9 kernel when they have 2.6.27-based ones available -- YMMV. The behavior in comment 4 looks quite reasonable. Sometimes connections will drop -- it is the nature of wireless. If you want the connections to be restarted automatically then you need to use wpa_supplicant or NetworkManager to handle your wireless connections.
Well, I know nature of wireless. I have my laptop in the same room connected to the same AP running on different Unix-like OS and it can reconnect without any workarounds or additional packages. I've also seen like my corp Windonws XP can reconnect tho the same AP when he will lost connection. That was amazing. Didn't thought that this is so challenging task for Linux drivers :/ Anyway I'm looking forward to see 2.6.27.x series for f9 to test them and I will keep to test latest rawhide kernels. I'm little bit disappointed here as I could manage myself without cutting a ticket to do yum update everyday.
Not connecting automatically is a design decision in mac80211 -- feel free to submit patches if you think it should be different.