From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4um0-0006zf-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:04:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A313E066F; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6EC2E066F for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75731C7A72; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:03:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:03:22 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: rsz0k8wxjwqTOjnM7mAKrD2n7BBEP380/r/K5PKAGuo2 1227607401 Received: from [10.129.188.127] (unknown [92.116.188.127]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 035C52CE10 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:03:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <492BCD42.2090408@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:02:42 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question... References: <328599.74998.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <328599.74998.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cb933d4e-2d03-4bc6-99e2-b6e054a918b9 X-Archives-Hash: c286456d13901f92102ef9fb9a56906d BRM schrieb: > I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) > I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and the system doesn't detect it. > A quick restart of the wlan0 interface (/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart) resolves the issue. > > I was wondering what the normal procedure is for this. > > I have WPA Supplicant installed, but it doesn't seem to be managing my wireless at all. (Would be great to get it to do so.) > > I'd really like to get this working properly. It's the probably the last thing to making the system 100% usable 100% of the time, and the only annoyance right now. > > Ben > > Could you please provide more info? What kind of WLAN-hardware do you use, maybe Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN? What is your current kernel version? Do you use WPA or WEP encryption on your WLAN? Is it ad-hoc or infrastructure mode? How have you configured your network? Can you please provide your /etc/conf.d/net file (please gzip/zip/bzip2 the file before attaching it)? If you ever touched it, please also provide /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. If this is all too much fuss for you, you could try using net-misc/networkmanager. When you notice that your WLAN just lost its connection, take a look at the last few lines of the output of dmesg. If you can't make sense out of it, please send it to the list.