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raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 88

Wireless takes a long time to connect, problem occurs sporadically

I am experiencing a weird and annoying problem. My wireless sometimes (often recently) takes ages to connect to the internet, and sometimes it works just after reboot. Sometimes it doesn't work at all. The hardware and the ISP are probably fine (I moved house and changed ISP and router recently), another laptop with Windows connects normally all the time. This issue begun a few days ago possibly with an update - cannot be sure because I have done a few updates during the time.

I recall having a similar issue about a year ago, but cannot remember the solution.

How shall I proceed?

Last edited by raavas (2013-11-23 18:59:33)

mich04

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From: Illinois - United States

Registered: 2011-10-25

Posts: 390

Re: Wireless takes a long time to connect, problem occurs sporadically

We need more details like what you are using to connect to your wireless such as software or hardware, do you have a firewall, what security do you run, etc

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raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 88

Re: Wireless takes a long time to connect, problem occurs sporadically

Here are some details:

I am using NetworkManager, no firewall, no extra security.
NetworkManager.service is enabled with systemctl and seems to be working.
IPv6 is being ignored in the NetworkManager's settings.

lspci -k output

Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Lite-On Communications Inc Device 6632
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k
	Kernel modules: ath9k 

dmesg -w output

[   14.609524] tg3 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Link is down
[   19.038501] tg3 0000:02:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[   19.059951] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   19.083390] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   21.755090] wlan0: authenticate with ec:43:f6:56:cc:f8
[   21.786019] wlan0: send auth to ec:43:f6:56:cc:f8 (try 1/3)
[   21.787933] wlan0: authenticated
[   21.791045] wlan0: associate with ec:43:f6:56:cc:f8 (try 1/3)
[   21.799796] wlan0: RX AssocResp from ec:43:f6:56:cc:f8 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[   21.799865] wlan0: associated
[   21.799909] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   40.740654] fuse init (API version 7.22)

I have been looking at the various wikis with little success so far.

raavas

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 88

Re: Wireless takes a long time to connect, problem occurs sporadically

I have now switched to wicd, and tried all sorts of tricks, but the problem still seems to persist.

Recent development is that when I go to the router admin menu via its ip address and reach it, then the wireless seems to kick in as well. The problem is that this was not needed before.

Could it be a router issue or hardware issue after all?