RE: [PATCH v3 00/11] RTW88: Add support for USB variants

[Ping-Ke Shih]

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> From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 10:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] RTW88: Add support for USB variants
> 
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > This is the third round of adding support for the USB variants to the
> > RTW88 driver. There are a few changes to the last version which make it
> > worth looking at this version.
> >
> > First of all RTL8723du and RTL8821cu are tested working now. The issue
> > here was that the txdesc checksum calculation was wrong. I found the
> > correct calculation in various downstream drivers found on github.
> >
> > The second big issue was that TX packet aggregation was wrong. When
> > aggregating packets each packet start has to be aligned to eight bytes.
> > The necessary alignment was added to the total URB length before
> > checking if there is another packet to aggregate, so the URB length
> > included that padding after the last packet, which is wrong.  Fixing
> > this makes the driver work much more reliably.
> >
> > I added all people to Cc: who showed interest in this driver and I want
> > to welcome you for testing and reviewing.
> 
> There still is a problem with the RTL8822cu chipset I have here.  When
> using NetworkManager I immediately lose the connection to the AP after
> it has been connected:
> 
> [  376.213846] wlan0: authenticate with 76:83:c2:ce:81:b1
> [  380.085463] wlan0: send auth to 76:83:c2:ce:81:b1 (try 1/3)
> [  380.091446] wlan0: authenticated
> [  380.108864] wlan0: associate with 76:83:c2:ce:81:b1 (try 1/3)
> [  380.136448] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 76:83:c2:ce:81:b1 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=2)
> [  380.202955] wlan0: associated
> [  380.268140] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
> [  380.275328] wlan0: Connection to AP 76:83:c2:ce:81:b1 lost
> 
> That doesn't happen when using plain wpa_supplicant. This seems to go
> down to cd96e22bc1da ("rtw88: add beacon filter support"). After being
> connected I get a BCN_FILTER_CONNECTION_LOSS beacon. Plain
> wpa_supplicant seems to go another code patch and doesn't activate
> connection quality monitoring.
> 
> The connection to the AP works fluently also with NetworkManager though
> when I just ignore the BCN_FILTER_CONNECTION_LOSS beacon.
> 
> Any idea what may be wrong here?
> 

Please reference to below patch to see if it can work to you.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20221124064442.28042-1-pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

Ping-Ke