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Question: I've reinstalled Arch Linux, because it didn't work when I installed it for the first time (I made an error that broke the packaging system).
Now, hardware OpenGL works, but I still experience problems with my WLAN.
It seems to randomly disconnect about every 5 to 15 minutes, and then reconnect a minute or two later.
I don't quite understand why, because the dhcp lease is for 86400 seconds, or at least the console output of dhcpcd says that.
It shouldn't be a Linux problem, because everything works fine on Ubuntu.
I connect like this:
iwconfig eth0 essid "MyNetworkName"
dhcpcd eth0I have an IPW 2200, latest kernel, everything updated, everything else works fine.
I don't know if that is relevant, but my system has a normal ethernet interface, which usually is eth1.
Now, sometimes, eth0 and eth1 are exchanged, so when i try iwconfig eth0 essid "MyNetworkName", it says "error, not a wireless adapter".
What happend is of course that eth0 is eth1 and eth1 is eth0, so then it works when i do iwconfig eth1 essid "MyNetworkName".
That also seems to be randomly, and as far as i can tell, it should always be the same, as long as I don't change the hardware...
It might also be relevant that I couldn't login to a computer in the local network via ssh, and I had to remove the paranoid line from hosts.deny to make it possible.
The page where I found the tip about the paranoid line in hosts.deny said, that this issue usually occurs with broken reverse dns lookup ???
Broken reverse lookup when I connect via IP? How so?
Last edited by quandary (2009-11-20 15:51:51)
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
Take a look at the "Mixed Up Devices" section to solve the problem of changing interface names.
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