Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: deauthenticating by local choice

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and
>>> sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3)
>>> (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense.  Other times I get a
>>> different series of messages in dmesg when I'm unable to connect which
>>> don't make sense to me.  The interface connects, then disconnects,
>>> then connects, then disconnects, over and over until it finally
>>> decides to fail permanently.
>>
>> Have you tried disabling power saving mode? Something like:
>>
>> iwconfig wlan0 power off
>
> I love this list.  I don't want to speak too soon, but Paul, it looks
> like you fixed it.

I hope so!

> I've been struggling with this for a very long
> time.  The problem would manifest with 2 different rt73 USB wireless
> adapters.

I had unstable connections and poor speeds on my laptop, and power
saving turned out to be the reason why. Some cards have intermediate
power-saving levels, too, which might give you a good compromise
between performance and battery life, if battery life is even a
concern.