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Tealer

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Registered: 2010-03-28

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Wireless Dongle Issues

Not sure whether or not this is the correct forum, but I recently bought a TP-Link TL-WN727N wireless dongle, however I am having some issues with it under Arch. It will connect to my wireless network, but it won't for long. It'll then try to reconnect to it but it fails. Not sure what the problem is, it works fine under Windows XP, so it's probably a driver problem.

pyther

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Re: Wireless Dongle Issues

You are probably right, the device drivers are probably buggy. Google your adapter and see what comes up.

Also, sometimes wireless encryption can cause these disconnects (again buggy device driver), so a workaround may to be to turn off encryption.

*DISCLAIMER: Make sure you fully understand the issues associated with an open access point

Last edited by pyther (2010-10-14 13:27:04)

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tomk

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Re: Wireless Dongle Issues

What driver are you using? There's really no point asking about wifi issues without including that detail at least, and preferably more, such as chipset, encryption used, output of iwconfig/ifconfig, etc.