From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:28:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012112328.43087.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D03DE8E.3020404@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 11 December 2010 20:26:54 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The output of
>
> wpa_supplicant -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> -iwlan0 -d dhcpcd
>
> on my laptop shows continuous output to screen which appears to be
> looping on association and disassociation to my wireless router (I am
> not posting this long list here). The corresponding effect is this
>
> -> ping yahoo.com
> PING yahoo.com (72.30.2.43) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=1 ttl=47
> time=88.2 ms
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=2 ttl=47
> time=88.6 ms
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=3 ttl=47
> time=91.1 ms
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> [snip]
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=21 ttl=47
> time=94.8 ms
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=22 ttl=47
> time=90.7 ms
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=23 ttl=47
> time=87.6 ms
> 64 bytes from ir1.fp.vip.sk1.yahoo.com (72.30.2.43): icmp_req=24 ttl=47
> time=89.5 ms
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable
> ^C
> --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
> 32 packets transmitted, 7 received, 78% packet loss, time 31009ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 87.615/90.125/94.813/2.283 ms
>
> I have never setup wireless networking and have been reading the web and
> other information on how to use wpa_supplicant to connect to my home
> router. I would appreciate help on this. I emerged wpa_supplicant with
> the following USE flags:
>
> -> equery uses wpa_supplicant
> [ Searching for packages matching wpa_supplicant... ]
> [ Colour Code : set unset ]
> [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
> [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> [ Found these USE variables for net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2-r3 ]
> U I
> - - dbus : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it
> (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
> - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and
> extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
> - - eap-sim : Add support for EAP-SIM authentication algorithm
> - - fasteap : Add support for FAST-EAP authentication algorithm
> - - gnutls : Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL
> 3.0 support)
> - - kernel_FreeBSD : KERNEL setting for system using the FreeBSD kernel
> + + kernel_linux : KERNEL setting for system using the Linux kernel
> - - madwifi : Add support for madwifi (Atheros chipset)
> - - ps3 : Add support for ps3 hypervisor driven gelic wifi
> - - qt4 : Adds support for the Qt GUI/Application Toolkit
> version 4.x
> + + readline : Enables support for libreadline, a GNU
> line-editing library that almost everyone wants
> + + ssl : Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
> - - wps : Add support for Wi-Fi Protected Setup
>
> There were a number of steps to get to where I am now and I would be
> glad to post additional information if required.
You could try changing channels (if there is a clash with other local APs) but
it's most likely that the dropouts you notice are due to the wireless driver.
Waiting for developers to catch up or using later drivers/firmware usually
fixes this problem.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-11 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-11 20:26 [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop Valmor de Almeida
2010-12-11 23:28 ` Mick [this message]
2010-12-12 1:35 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-12-12 2:07 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-12-12 10:55 ` Mick
2010-12-13 7:17 ` [SOLVED] " Valmor de Almeida
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