Re: Frequent Disconnects

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 13:39 -0400, Patrick Hi wrote:
> So do you guys think it's just the weak signal strength and
> interference that is causing the disconnections? If so, what should I
> do about it. Would a different router help (mine's a westell
> versalink). I have the same problem only on all three computers
> running linux and connecting to my wireless network. The iMac has no
> problems, and when booted into windows the computers have no problem
> keeping connected. I just want to find some answers. 

Weak signal strength could cause them if you're at the margins of the
network, and the driver looses sync with the AP.  But if you still get
disconnections (ie, iwevent shows SIOCSIWAP events of 00:00:00:00:00:00)
when you're right next to the AP then we really need debug logs from the
driver to figure out why it thinks it's being kicked.

Dan

> --Patrick
> 
> On 7/17/07, Patrick Hi <durandal glamdring gmail com> wrote:
>         I use channel 11, but I don't know if that helps.
>         I've also noticed things in the log that seem hardware
>         related:
>         Jul 10 16:15:40 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^IDeactivating device ath0. 
>         
>         
>         Jul 10 16:15:40 localhost dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.ath0.pid with pid 7000
>         Jul 10 16:15:40 localhost dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file
>         Jul 10 16:15:40 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
>         
>         
>         Jul 10 16:15:40 localhost dhclient: wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
>         Jul 10 16:15:41 localhost dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on ath0 to 
>         192.168.1.1 port 67
>         I'm sorry I gave the impression that I think NM is the
>         problem. If this is not appropriate for the nm list I'll
>         gladly move it elsewhere. But I figured I'd stand a better
>         chance in a wifi related list than general help.
>         I run Ubuntu (feisty) so chkconfig is a little hard to obtain.
>         Should I use something else like sysv-rc-conf? What exactly
>         should I do with it?
>         
>         --Patrick 
> 
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