keyboard repeating and mouse freezes with wpa_supplicant

Valeriy Kucherenko darkside_ua
Fri Apr 27 15:46:59 PDT 2012


The problem is not in wpa_supplicant at all. 

I guess, you have a wireless keyboard and mouse. The problem is that the 2.4Ghz wireless key/mouse work on same frequencies as Wi-Fi b/g standarts. So, when you use you wi-fi channel at high speed (for example, when downloading something) - the wi-fi connection between you AP and PC interfere with wireless key/mouse. That's why you have freezes and repeated characters. This is normal. I have the same problem with my Logitech MK-520 when downloading something big and time-consumable via Wi-Fi, but this behavior does not appears when, for example, surfing web sites or playing online games.

You can try to move you AP further from you wireless key/mouse. Maybe this can help. Or... throw out your wireless key/mouse and use wired instead.

> Hi,
> 
> I have a machine a wifi card:
> 
> rtl8192ce       : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8188CE
> 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:10ec device:8176
> subv:10ec subd:9196) (rev: 01)
> 
> so when running wpa_supplicant and when typing sometimes characters
> are repeated like i continued pressing the same keyboard key, also
> mouse sometimes appears to freeze.
> 
> I have talked with realtak developers about this issue and they say
> this can be related with realtek driver, and its strange that it only
> happens when wpa_supplicant is running.
> 
> -- 
> Salutem,
> Z?
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