From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-142232-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94096138010 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A18F121C09F; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:34:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0710321C081 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (66-208-231-133.ubr01a.rte20201.pa.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [66.208.231.133]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lbdxb-1T63gn3Ncp-00kUp4; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:32:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:32:33 -0500 From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections Message-ID: <20121030183233.GU17663@server> References: <20121030132943.41800e1a@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121030132943.41800e1a@khamul.example.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:RtrgxB3ggAy64YBvdiwiaJ+LDwn4ooUShs/3etVU5Zh mFchvmN48vUCtWbVU1sa0Z/3RgNbwqIvMa3APQS10y81xYD8JI wPPxfWA4WDl26DwCsxzW0rJH0suvqMaANiy4G8mbzi3uh8I/KD Cgh/h+2rtRPK/z9eSKR6Pfpmyy5irlVnVKLqodBvYYRQbEYXW1 a/BJwBEZpXWy7CPPGPXSOgOewfQRpbAdH/0RuORFyOaXmG+SoF ioNUE1XL/seZv1vYDeqA4BkKrNU35Gf/ZKed/B1IhCqdT57yf8 af+WjXFZ4S8Wy+yiz4McIaO4hOoHrNvJL7pS9/5qO6riy5bHrq Ww5eyxzLb3ZX9nra3Ybq82sQXhMYxZ6S7hfz8PY6p X-Archives-Salt: a1767674-af37-4d22-ba3f-01e93b669757 X-Archives-Hash: 759eb0cafafd542c5ba122882617a157 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:29:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP > (802.11n) > > Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. I doubt it's my > laptop as other devices in the house also get affected. When this > happens I usually manually reconnect using wicd, it can do this > automatically but there's a long timeout first before it realizes the > connection was dropped. ack on the interference... Last year we experienced this identical problem, and changed the router to channel 11. It was the cordless phone on the same channel for us. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ support@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting