Text 9505, 78 rader
Skriven 2007-02-21 13:03:40 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 9501 av Joe Bruchis (1:3828/12)
Ärende: Wireless in Linux
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Joe Bruchis wrote in a message to August Abolins:

 JB> Hello August.

 JB> 20 Feb 07 12:46, you wrote to Charles Scaglione:

 AA> Hi Charles (of 1:123/789),
 AA> On Wed, 14 Feb 07 at 14:07 o'clock, you wrote me:

 CS>> .... Wireless in Linux,
 CS>> IMO, is still touch and go.  It's getting better, however.

 JB> Everyone is really big on Ubantu. In fact it hits the #1 number of
 JB> downloads of any other distro more often than not.

In my own opinion, for excellent reasons. They took an excellent base product,
Debian, and added what the world has been demanding, better integration and
more non-free devices and support. 

 AA> I was really inspired by *nix when I saw what Ubuntu provided.  My
 AA> next concern was printer support.  Linuxprinting.org does a great job
 AA> narrowing down what "works perfectly".  Great resource.  Is there an
 AA> equivalent site that matches the wireless products that "work
 AA> perfectly" with Linux?

 JB> Ubantu and all other Linux distros share the same problem with
 JB> wireless.  I'm sure there are some gurus or just plain lucky people
 JB> that got it working flawlessly. I finally got my internet Broadcom

Count me among them. 

 JB> 4306 wireless "card" in my laptop working with my Linksys router in

Never even heard of that card. Google linux laptop and you should find a very
well defined set of pages for how to make any laptop work with linux. Related
info is talking about sound and wireless drivers. If your laptop has USB2.0,
you can consider some of the USB dongle devices, but I've had decent luck with
most older mainstream pcmcia cards. 

 JB> Mandriva 2007. The problem I experience is the same as I've been
 JB> reading in user groups of numerous distros. If one allows the
 JB> connection to sit idle for 5 minutes or so, the wireless networking

Are you trying to run a static IP address manually encoded? Chances are you
still have the dhclient running and it and your static assignments are fighting
over the network hardware. I would also look at your power settings as there
has been nothing, other than a fight over network configs between dhclient and
a static assignment that I have ever experienced that would do what you
describe. 

 JB> disconnects. One then has to log out and start a new X session to
 JB> get it running again.  It works great while it's up, but can't be
 JB> depended on to run a server unattended, wirelessly. Plugged to a
 JB> Cat 5 cable in the NIC I experience no loss of connectivity
 JB> whatsoever.  However, laptops are made to be portable, and wireless
 JB> is almost mandatory.

What happens if you become root and run `ifconfig -a`? Do that while everything
is working properly. Also do it again when you have lost network. Also cat
/etc/resolv.conf in both states. When you have lost network, if your ifconfig
shows nothing there, try running `/etc/init.d/networking restart` and see if
that brings the network back. 

You might also have a bad pcmcia setup for some reason. There should be nothing
in a restart of X that should resolve that type of network issue except
possibly that the X run level forces networking to start/stop when you exit and
come back in. 

 JB> Writing this gave me an idea. The power saving settings could have
 JB> an impact on the wireless disconnecting.  Maybe I'll play with that
 JB> a bit. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

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