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solidex84

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Registered: 2013-12-15

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Wifi fairly regularly disconnects

Hello. I've been having this problem for the past few days where my wifi connection works fine and then suddenly disconnects, only to reconnect a few seconds later. The timespan between disconnects is roughly a few minutes and seems to be consistent. The signal strength of my connection hovers around -45 dBm consistently. Below is a paste of the output of 'dmesg -w output' taken from the the time the disconnect happens (wlp3s6 is my wifi card):

[  292.688398] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[  293.534633] wlp3s6: authenticate with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8
[  293.559630] wlp3s6: send auth to 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 1/3)
[  293.710154] wlp3s6: send auth to 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 2/3)
[  293.850565] wlp3s6: send auth to 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 3/3)
[  293.994923] wlp3s6: authentication with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 timed out
[  295.388152] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  295.589581] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link down
[  295.589656] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp4s0: link is not ready
[  300.193599] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  301.148268] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  301.306410] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link down
[  301.306463] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp4s0: link is not ready
[  301.464464] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  303.641476] wlp3s6: authenticate with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8
[  303.659234] wlp3s6: send auth to 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 1/3)
[  303.682287] wlp3s6: authenticated
[  303.684498] wlp3s6: associate with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 1/3)
[  303.688227] wlp3s6: RX AssocResp from 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
[  303.688300] wlp3s6: associated
[  303.688334] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp3s6: link becomes ready
[  336.436741] sd_festival[2318]: segfault at 2d0 ip 00007ff0b321d191 sp 00007fff8d9e4a70 error 4 in libpthread-2.18.so[7ff0b3210000+18000]
[  431.456714] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[  432.420106] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  432.764720] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link down
[  432.764801] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp4s0: link is not ready
[  437.199065] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  438.179605] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  438.358191] r8169 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0: link down
[  438.358240] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enp4s0: link is not ready
[  438.488212] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s6: link is not ready
[  440.643422] wlp3s6: authenticate with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8
[  440.661311] wlp3s6: send auth to 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 1/3)
[  440.686270] wlp3s6: authenticated
[  440.689628] wlp3s6: associate with 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (try 1/3)
[  440.693512] wlp3s6: RX AssocResp from 74:44:01:56:b0:f8 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
[  440.693586] wlp3s6: associated
[  440.693619] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp3s6: link becomes ready

According to lspci my wifi adapter is "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 06)". I am using wicd to manage my networks (I've tried using networkmanager instead of wicd but this didn't help).

I considered that this might be an issue with poor signal, but this only happened within the past 2 days or so and I do not have any connectivity issues with anything else. I live in a ranch-style house with the router on one end of the house and with me in a back bedroom.

I've researched the issue and have not found anything that might be of use. Any help would be appreciative as this is rather annoying. Thanks!

Edit: I'm somewhat convinced it's not a signal strength problem as I tested a live image of Point Linux and I never had the above problem.

Last edited by solidex84 (2013-12-15 23:56:32)