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Peilonrayz

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Registered: 2014-03-10

Posts: 3

Undocumented 'random disconnection' from manually connected wireless

I have got a USB-N13 wireless-N300 dongle.
According to 'lspci -k' I have the drivers, and I have a wireless interface. So I know that my dongle has drivers but I don't know if they work 100% well.

I will show the output of various normal commands:

$ iw dev wlp5s0u1 link
Connected to <mac address> (on wlp5s0u1)
	SSID: <ssid>
	freq: 2437
	RX: 19939057 bytes (111695 packets)
	TX: 319269 bytes (2813 packets)
	signal: -50 dBm
	tx bitrate: 7.2 MBit/s MCS 0 short GI

	bss flags:	short-slot-time
	dtim period:	0
	beacon int:	100

$ ip link show wlp5s0u1
3: wlp5s0u1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d8:50:e6:f4:33:24 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

$ dmesg -w
[    6.634808] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link down
[    6.634847] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp4s0: link is not ready
[    6.636405] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[    6.648784] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[    7.006529] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp5s0u1: link is not ready
[    8.751113] wlp5s0u1: authenticate with <mac address>
[    8.774294] wlp5s0u1: send auth to <mac address> (try 1/3)
[    8.792882] wlp5s0u1: authenticated
[    8.794125] wlp5s0u1: associate with <mac address> (try 1/3)
[    8.815636] wlp5s0u1: RX AssocResp from <mac address> (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=4)
[    8.815672] wlp5s0u1: associated
[    8.815712] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp5s0u1: link becomes ready
[  265.580381] type=1006 audit(1394469140.822:2): pid=253 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=1000 old ses=4294967295 new ses=1 res=1
[  265.639231] type=1006 audit(1394469140.882:3): pid=495 uid=0 old auid=4294967295 new auid=1000 old ses=4294967295 new ses=2 res=1
[  272.723778] fuse init (API version 7.22)
[  291.938590] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[  291.981059] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
[  385.885587] hda-intel 0000:00:1b.0: Unstable LPIB (130824 >= 8192); disabling LPIB delay counting
[  423.970540] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link up
[  423.970548] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp4s0: link becomes ready

This is all the information from when I fist see an wireless interface.
All, I can tell is that my wlp5s0u1 doesn't go down, but a few seconds before I plug in my wireless bridge, or enp4s0, my 'Internet stops...' Or I can't search google, and my youtube stops streaming, conky says that about 30bytes get transfered from that point on, and there is no errors?!
I'm not on a laptop, and my device's power saver is set to off. And as I'm not getting the second error I don't know how to fix this.

$ iw dev wlp5s0u1 get power_save
Power save: off

(Sorry if this is blatantly obvious, I've only had arch for under a month, with no prior Linux experience, and my dad can't help me with it too!)

EDIT:
Please can someone please tell me something that I can try or look into to resolve this, I have a useless dongle now, and an Internet connection that drops at least 50% of the packets.

Last edited by Peilonrayz (2014-03-12 17:18:43)