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manu83

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 17

wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

Hi everyone
just come back to Arch after one year. The community grown fast and support seems to be fantastic.
Anyway, I have problems with my wireless connection. I installed the system from cd including ipw2200 driver (the right one for my card).
I followed the entire wiki guide on wireless and it seems to work, wpa_supplicant can associate to the access point and dhcpcd gets an address (valid). I can also ping external addresses (so DNS work too). After 5 seconds, anyhow, if I ping someone I got the message "network is unreachable".
Under windows the AP works fine. it has WPA-TKIP encription.
Thanks everyone

Last edited by manu83 (2009-08-24 09:53:47)

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

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Re: wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

Hello manu83!

Is it USB or PCI based card, with which chipset ? Which kernel version do you use ? Did you try with other applications to join ? Did you try it in open mode too ? Do you use router ?

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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

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Re: wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

If you run wpa_supplicant manually and not backgrounded, do you see any errors after those five seconds? I tend to get network is unreachable when having wpa_supplicant problems.

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manu83

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 17

Re: wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

I just managed to solve the problem.
Actually, this problem is only for encripted connections. with open ones it works fine. I just made an attempt on an open router and it works. Then downloaded KDE and WICD and now it works fine also on encripted connections. Maybe WICD uses other modules to manage encription?

@statix: I ran wpa_supplicant manually and there were no errors, even after a long time. Quite strange. Could it be a wpa_supplicant bug? or a dhcpcd one?

@djzapi: kernel 2.6.30. Intel PCI wireless card. 32 bit system.

jelly

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Re: wireless connection lost in few seconds [solved]

please add [solved]  to the topic title

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