Netcfg doesnt work with Wifi, wicd does: why? Fix netcfg?

Stalafin · 2012-01-13 23:51:32

I just moved into a new place using my neighbour's WEP-Wifi (no, I didn't hack it ). First, I used netcfg to connect to it, but the connection to the router was horrible, jumpy at best. My ping to www.google.com oscillated between 30ms and 6000ms and sometimes I would not get a response at all (bbs.archlinux.org would take between 10s and 2min to load).

I tried disabling ipv6, turning off my laptop's powersaving features, but all to no avail.

This post: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 41#p831541 caused me to try wicd, and indeed it works for me! I get a smooth response of 30ms when pinging www.google.com, and I can actually open websites, skype, and chat on IRC.

What could be doing this? I would much rather keep using Netcfg, but it simply doesn't work for me at the moment.

tomk · 2012-01-14 00:36:02

Not much to work with there - check your logs for clues.

Stalafin · 2012-01-14 01:42:19

You are perfectly right. But then again - I don't exactly know what to look for to begin with. The only change I made was replacing netcfg with wicd and out of a sudden all my problems were gone.

Can you maybe suggest what I could do to provide more information?

tomk · 2012-01-14 21:10:33

Connect with netcfg, capture log entries and iwconfig output.
Connect with wicd, do the same.
Compare the results.

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#1 2012-01-13 23:51:32

Netcfg doesnt work with Wifi, wicd does: why? Fix netcfg?

#2 2012-01-14 00:36:02

Re: Netcfg doesnt work with Wifi, wicd does: why? Fix netcfg?

#3 2012-01-14 01:42:19

Re: Netcfg doesnt work with Wifi, wicd does: why? Fix netcfg?

#4 2012-01-14 21:10:33

Re: Netcfg doesnt work with Wifi, wicd does: why? Fix netcfg?

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