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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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<chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> |
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> I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always "just |
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> worked". I use wicd although I don't really even know what that |
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> means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc. |
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> |
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> I now have a problem. Please point me toward the tools I should use |
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> to diagnose and fix the problem. I tried to fix this problem by |
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> running wicd-client from the command line hoping to see some stderr |
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> messages to help diagnose, but no luck. Also dmesg is not helpful. |
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> |
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> Problem: |
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> I used a linksys router for years. It appeared as a single SSID that |
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> I connected to. Configured with wicd-client. Everything worked great |
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> under gentoo. |
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> I throw away the linksys and purchase a new "apple airport express". |
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> This router works fine with my apple machines. On gentoo, wicd-client |
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> shows two SSIDs with identical names for this one router! One is on |
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> "channel 11" and one is on "channel 157". Not sure this matters. I |
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> specify my password for both of them and specify one of them to |
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> "connect automatically". The connection with one (or both?) of the |
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> SSIDs stays live for 5-10 minutes, then disconnects. I can get it to |
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> reconnect by simply opening wicd-client, highlighting one of the two |
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> SSIDs, and clicking connect. Repeat every 5-10 minutes. |
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> |
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> Question: What tools or logs can I use to understand why my wireless |
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> connection disconnects every 5-10 minutes? |
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> FYI this is what dmesg says during one of these disconnect/reconnect cycles: |
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> [55519.603007] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain |
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> [55520.041137] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S |
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> [55520.041381] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 |
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> [55520.195568] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
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> [55520.494633] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X |
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> [55520.595455] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X |
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> [55520.598916] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready |
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> [55550.414298] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S |
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> [55550.414523] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 |
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> [55550.551957] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
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> [55966.719991] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S |
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> [55966.720250] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 |
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> [55966.863374] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
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> [55967.147380] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X |
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> [55967.248317] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X |
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> [55967.251736] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready |
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> [55967.301004] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S |
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> [55967.301252] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 |
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> [55967.452333] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
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> [55969.637135] wlan0: authenticate with 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be |
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> [55969.641690] wlan0: send auth to 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (try 1/3) |
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> [55969.643564] wlan0: authenticated |
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> [55969.643873] wlan0: associate with 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (try 1/3) |
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> [55969.647304] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (capab=0x431 |
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> status=0 aid=1) |
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> [55969.654396] wlan0: associated |
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> [55969.657270] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready |
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> Thank you, |
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> Chris |
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Check the log in /var/log/wicd for errors. Also, inside of wicd's |
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configuration there's a "debug" option... enabling that increases the |
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messages dumped into the log(s) there quite a bit, if what's already |
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there doesn't say anything useful. |
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-- |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |