[Novalug] HELP! WiFi Networking broken

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Fri Aug 10 11:10:49 EDT 2012


Do you set the channel on device? Remove other other access points?

is there anything of interest in /var/log/messages about the wifi?

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Chuck Frain <linux@chuckfrain.net> wrote:
> That's not the problem that I'm having. The hardware gets detected, but
> the connection from my laptop to the wireless router drops randomly. The
> OS indicates that its either connected or attempting to connect during
> these blackout times.
>
> I've got three different wireless points (one in the same primary room)
> and different channels (1,6,11) and experience the same issue with them
> all. I don't take that machine many other places, but when I do I see
> the same issue occasionally (its used less outside the house).
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, greg pryzby wrote:
>
>> I don't know if you looked here.
>> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/182035-wireless-network-adapter-no-longer-detected.html
>>
>> There were issues when moving to 3.0 kernel and I keep finding some
>> hardware issues under 3.x that get fixed and broken. This will be in
>> all the distros that are NOT enterprise, meaning slow to update the
>> kernel.
>
> --
> Chuck Frain
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> http://www.chuckfrain.net



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