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komrad_toast

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From: New York

Registered: 2012-08-24

Posts: 37

Wi-Fi Disconnects Arbitrarily - Dell Inspiron N5050

I have a Dell Inspiron N5050 that I have installed Arch Linux on almost a year ago. For the past month or so I have been receiving random disconnects from my Wireless. I can open wifi-menu and choose to reconnect and it always works. But the disconnects are a pain, and it will eventually disconnect again. Sometimes the disconnect happens within minutes of my last reconnect, and sometimes it is hours. It is random, as I said.

This is the output from dmesg (starting at the disconnect) there are no out of the ordinary messages from my wireless adapter (or in general) before this happens:

[1259445.939502] wlp9s0: deauthenticating from b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[1259446.448429] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp9s0: link is not ready
[1259447.629848] wlp9s0: authenticate with b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84
[1259447.652610] wlp9s0: send auth to b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (try 1/3)
[1259447.656005] wlp9s0: authenticated
[1259447.657322] wlp9s0: associate with b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (try 1/3)
[1259447.661567] wlp9s0: RX AssocResp from b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=1)
[1259447.661727] wlp9s0: associated
[1259447.727437] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp9s0: link becomes ready
[1259732.140297] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x8d on isa0060/serio0).
[1259732.140307] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e00d <keycode>' to make it known.
[1261042.854856] wlp9s0: deauthenticating from b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[1261043.265480] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp9s0: link is not ready
[1261044.437732] wlp9s0: authenticate with b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84
[1261044.460720] wlp9s0: send auth to b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (try 1/3)
[1261044.463421] wlp9s0: authenticated
[1261044.464357] wlp9s0: associate with b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (try 1/3)
[1261044.469535] wlp9s0: RX AssocResp from b4:2a:0e:13:7e:84 (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=1)
[1261044.469799] wlp9s0: associated

As you can see, there are two disconnects in the above dmesg output, followed by me reconnecting. I get the same output every time my wireless disconnects. I have a router that is less than a year old and has been working absolutely fine. No other device on the network disconnects like this one does, so it is an issue that is local to this machine. The unknown key being pressed is a key to turn off the touchpad on this laptop and is unrelated to the issue, I have tested this. Could this be a driver or IPv6 issue? Any help would be appreciated, and thank you in advance.