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AlexS

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-16

Posts: 114

can't maintain wifi connection

After updating yesterday I'm suddenly unable to maintain a wireless connection

I connect via

ifconfig eth1 up
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
dhcpcd eth1

with a ping -c3 www.google.com I got the first two packets back, but then the connection is lost. Subsequent trials just give a "ping: unknown host www.google.com" error message. iwlist can still detect wireless networks, but I lost the network connection.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

MatejLach

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2011-06-22

Posts: 314

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Re: can't maintain wifi connection

Sorry, can you post some more details about your wireless hardware?
Thanks,

Last edited by MatejLach (2011-11-13 14:36:08)

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zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,229

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Re: can't maintain wifi connection

You should provide us with more info - but I'm guessing you didn't read the frontpage. It states clearly that net-tools was replaced with inet-utils, thus removing the tool 'ifconfig' in favor of 'ip'.