I'll second this; from a gw of mine:
$ sudo crontab -l | grep ral0
# Down and up ral0 on failure
* * * * * ifconfig ral0 | grep -q OACTIVE && {
ifconfig ral0; echo "\n *****\n"; ifconfig ral0 down; sleep 1; ifconfig ral0
up; ifconfig ral0; }
/Alexander
Stuart Henderson wrote:
> try ifconfig ral0 down; ifconfig ral0 up.
>
> that's a different thing and I suspect is a problem either in the driver
> or net80211. I have seen this on ral occasionally and have now seen something
> similar or the same on an acx which used to be stable; the only change at
> all with the acx was moving it to an environment with more other wireless
> devices around.
>
> unfortunately the places where I can actually get any diagnostic output
> are not places where this problem occurs...
>
>
> On 2009/04/27 11:46, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>> On 2009-04-26, Tom <tdmurp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2009-04-26. Stuart Henderson wrote:
>>>> On 2009-04-25, Tom wrote:
>>>>>> I have a ral(4) acting as a hostap. The problems began since
>>>>>> ugrading from Feb 28th snapshot to April 10th (and higher). I have a
>>>>>> Soekris 5501. I bought 2 different ral(4) PCI cards, one is a RT2661
>>>>>> and the other is a RT2860 (Planex GW-DS3300N). The RT2661 actually
>>>>>> lasts longer than the RT2860. When I have the RT2860 in the box, it
>>>>>> doesn't matter whether I use no encryption, WEP, WPA1 or WPA2. The box
>>>>>> locks up without any kind of drop into ddb. When the RT2661 is in the
>>>>>> machine, it will stay up a day, maybe two tops before it locks solid.
>>>>> try a different psu, especially if you have the lower-power of the ones
>>>>> that soekris sell.
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I got the higher psu of the ones soekris sell. It's 12V, 3A. That
>>>> should be enough
>>>> for the 2.5" laptop disk plus the PCI card I run, right?
>>> usually, yes, but there have been so many reported strange problems
>>> with soekris boxes that went away after switching PSU, it's a good thing
>>> to check early on.
>>>
>>> I'll try moving my alix with RT2860 to -current to see if I can
>>> replicate though..
>>>
>> I picked up a 12V, 3A PSU for my net4501 and it didn't fix the issue I
>> am having running my ral(4) card in hostap mode on 4.4-stable.
>>
>> ral0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Ralink RT2860" rev 0x00: irq 11, address
>> 00:0e:8e:20:84:94
>> ral0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0102), RF RT2850 (2T3R)
>>
>> I'm having a different issue where the clients are connecting
>> momentarily and then disconnecting.
>>
>> When I have a moment I'm going to throw this card in a spare desktop I
>> have to rule out an issue with the hardware or driver under 4.4-stable.
>> I'll update the list when I test this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -C
