USB wifi adapter unstable on Beaglebone angstrom or ubuntu

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Hi everyone,

I am relative new to the beagles and recently received my beaglebone
before christmas, since then I have been trying to get my USB wifi
adapters to work properly.
Both adapters consist of Ralink's chipsets and I have downloaded the
firmware from Ralink website and as well as copying from ubuntu's. I
am using the TP-link TL-WN321G wifi usb adapter.

http://www.tp-link.sg/products/details/?categoryid=246&model=TL-WN321G

This is the error i will get after a few minutes and the adapter no
longer works. This message will repeat until i reboot the system.

[ 122.220333] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x1208 with error -110.
[ 172.230347] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x1208 with error -110.
[ 222.240335] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x7010 with error -110.
[ 272.250346] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x7010 with error -110.
[ 322.260349] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x06 failed for offset 0x0404 with error -110.
[ 372.270336] phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor
Request 0x07 failed for offset 0x1004 with error -110.

Any one can help me?

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I was getting a similar error on my USB wireless adapter that also has
the Ralink chip set. My wasn't unstable though. It just didn't work at
all. I ended up building a new driver and replacing the rt2800usb
driver on my BeagleBone. Check out my solution here:

http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/38bc72ddf999426d

Jerrill

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Thanks Jerrill, but i seem to figured out the issue...

After a few days of troubleshooting and trial and error, I finally
managed to resolve the problem.

It seems that you have to specify the BSSID for the network blocks in /
etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and after that you are good to go!

For e.g:

network={
     ssid="MyNetwork"
     bssid=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF <--This part
     proto=RSN
     pairwise=TKIP
     group=TKIP
     key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
     scan_ssid=1
     #psk="1234567890"
     psk=**************************************
     priority=1
}

Hope this helps some one!