Patch for automatic recovery after dropped connection.

[nicroets]

I found that this change to TheRoDent's linux driver allows it to restart after a dropped connection. I use gentoo-2.6.10-r6. A bit of a hack.

diff -rub ipw/ipw.c newipw/ipw.c
--- ipw/ipw.c   2005-03-01 18:15:53.000000000 +0200
+++ newipw/ipw.c        2005-05-24 14:24:06.293751912 +0200
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@
        ipw->open_count = 0;
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipw->lock,flags);
 
+#if 0
        /*--1: drop the dtr */
        dbg("%s:dropping dtr",__FUNCTION__);
        result = usb_control_msg(ipw->dev, usb_sndctrlpipe(ipw->dev,0),
@@ -520,6 +521,7 @@
        if (result < 0)
                err("Disabling bulk RxRead failed (error = %d)", result);
 
+#endif
        /* shutdown any in-flight urbs that we know about */
        usb_unlink_urb (ipw->read_urb);
        usb_unlink_urb (ipw->write_urb);

 

[nicroets]

A bit more testing shows that it works better if the #endif is after the usb_unlinks.

Will post cleaned up source at http://rational.co.za/ipw later today.

PS : In /etc/ppp/peer/provider I specify the options 'persist' and 'maxfail 0'