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whitethorn

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Registered: 2010-05-02

Posts: 153

Skype kills my wireless connection

Hi,

I have a usb wireless dongle, ralink 3070 chipset. I got it to work with the following in rc.conf

MODULES=(... !rt2x00usb !rt2x00lib !rt2800usb rt2870sta)

I have wicd set as my wireless manager in gnome.  When I start logging in skype the connection dies immediately ifconfig shoots to 99% and everything just freezes.  Not quite sure what to do, or how to get it to work.

Here's some output from dmesg. It didn't all fit in pastie 
http://pastie.org/1458770

Last edited by whitethorn (2011-01-14 03:36:20)

JamieKitson

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From: UK

Registered: 2010-10-18

Posts: 161

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Re: Skype kills my wireless connection

Odd, I'm not sure why skype would be running ifconfig, could it be trying to use another interface? What's the output of ifconfig -a?