I suppose it is an improvement in that the need to reboot is gone. But the end result is that every few minutes there will be a period where the connection cuts out completely or latency goes WAY UP as network manager tries to reestablish the connection.
I am still having problems after applying the backported patched driver.
I went from my wifi dropping out ~ every 20 minutes (reason 2) with a reboot being the only way to reestablish a connection to this:
Sep 22 14:23:09 K55A NetworkManager[ 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: scanning -> authenticating 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> associating 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associating -> associated 1138]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: associated -> completed 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted 1138]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted
Sep 22 14:28:06 K55A NetworkManager[
Sep 22 14:30:06 K55A NetworkManager[
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Sep 22 14:58:37 K55A NetworkManager[
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Sep 22 14:58:38 K55A NetworkManager[
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Sep 22 15:00:06 K55A NetworkManager[
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I suppose it is an improvement in that the need to reboot is gone. But the end result is that every few minutes there will be a period where the connection cuts out completely or latency goes WAY UP as network manager tries to reestablish the connection.