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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:27:51 -0800
From:      Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru>
Cc:        "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org>, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CFT/CFR, possible fix for ifconfig scan hang
Message-ID:  <20110118192751.GJ1755@weongyo>
In-Reply-To: <4D1A29AD.4030103@rdtc.ru>
References:  <201012272024.37110.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <4D1A10C2.7070506@rdtc.ru> <201012281758.42484.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <4D1A29AD.4030103@rdtc.ru>

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:17:17AM +0600, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On 28.12.2010 22:58, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 December 2010 17:30:58 you wrote:
> >> On 28.12.2010 01:24, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> >>> I have a patch available which addresses both of the issues. It requests
> >>> a background scan by default and also honors the return value of
> >>> start_scan_locked():
> >>> - for head
> >>> http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/scan_hang_head.diff
> >>> - for 8-stable/8.2-*:
> >>> http://techwires.net/~bschmidt/scan_hang_stable.diff
> >>>
> >>> Please test and let me know if it works, or not.
> >>
> >> It helps and works for urtw(4)/Realtek RTL8187B found in some notebooks,
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> >> thanks. However, it still takes 81 seconds for "ifconfig wlan0 up" to
> >> complete and I wonder why. Then "ifconfig wlan0 scan" works without delay
> >> (it was hanging forever without your patch).
> > 
> > Is it really 81 seconds? or just 8.1, that's what I've got too.
> 
> Really 81 seconds.

Too late to response that I came back from vacation and today I reached
this email on my mailbox queue.

It seems I also need to test but taking long time to initialize the
device is true.  I also couldn't understand why the realtek vendor added
long and many delays or pauses at their sources.

regards,
Weongyo Jeong




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