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#1 2011-07-21 02:31:14

FUR10N
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Registered: 2010-09-11
Posts: 8

Wifi keeps reconnecting/failing on laptop (intel 3945 Inspiron 1520)

Hours of trying different things has failed me so here I am.

Quick note: Wifi worked fine about 4 months ago. But I just formatted and reinstalled arch and now this problem comes up.

The problem: I can connect to WPA and open networks fine using either the wicd or network daemons.
Once I connect, I can load one website fine (and maybe reload), but afterwards refreshing the page flat out fails.
Spamming the refresh button 15-20 times will cause it to connect once, but then it fails after another page-load or two. Rinse and repeat.

Also if I try to download something with pacman, I have to have a web browser open as well, and pacman seems to only download data when I can successfully get a page to load in my browser by spamming refresh. In any other case pacman fails to connect.

I'm dual booting linux mint, and wifi works perfectly fine in that OS, but I have no clue how it automatically set up the wireless configuration.

Lastly, in Arch, my wired card works fine.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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#2 2011-08-16 23:52:14

FUR10N
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Registered: 2010-09-11
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Re: Wifi keeps reconnecting/failing on laptop (intel 3945 Inspiron 1520)

I think I got it working. Dhcpcd kept reseting the DNS settings, so I ended up manually setting my dns server. Seems to work fine now.

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