Marko Cupa?? <marko.cu...@mimar.rs> wrote: > Hi, > > I have occasional device timeout from urtwn on my ThinkPad T440 with usb > wifi dongle. > > All I get in dmesg is: > urtwn0: device timeout > > > ifconfig still shows it as associated: > urtwn0: flags=28c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> > mtu 1500 > lladdr 6c:19:8f:b3:98:02 > priority: 4 > groups: wlan egress > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11g) > status: active > ieee80211: nwid somessid chan 6 bssid 24:a4:3c:65:ca:f7 180dB wpakey > <not displayed> wpaprotos wpa1,wpa2 wpaakms psk wpaciphers tkip,ccmp > wpagroupcipher tkip > inet 10.90.7.15 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 10.90.7.127 > > I can ping local IP address, but nothing else. > > Little blue light on the adapter is on during times of outage. > netstart restores the connection for a few seconds, after which it > drops again. > > Re-inserting usb dongle followed by netstart re-estabilishes > connection for a longer period. I noticed that dongle was quite > hot when I removed it. > > I don't know if it is related, but I had similar problem with > integrated wifi adapter on linux with iwlwifi driver. It would > wander off to AP with worse signal, or just stop transmitting. > I'd have to turn adapter off and on in order to restore the > connection. > > Any good people out there to help me out with this? > -- > Marko Cupa?? > https://www.mimar.rs/
I have the same problem with 5.6 on a ThinkPad x120e but not with -current on a MacBook. I thought it had gotten better and that was that, but the other replies here indicate that xhci makes it worse. -- Martin
