On 2011-08-19 13:36:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 19 Aug 2011 at 02:18:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Anyone knows where the following problem comes from? > > > > In the last hours, I've had a wifi disconnection twice, while I had > > never had such a problem before. Concerning the second connection and > > disconnection (at 01:48), the kernel and dhclient logs contain: > > The problem hasn't happened again?
Not yet, but I don't use the wifi very often. > > Aug 19 01:48:46 xvii kernel: [83869.510308] wlan0: deauthenticating from > > 00:00:c5:b4:98:74 by local choice (reason=3) > > 'Reason: 3' means deauthentication took place. Some process on the > machine has decided to do this. NM? wicd? Perhaps it did it because > there is no address to connect to? I use wicd, but its logs at this time are: 2011/08/19 01:48:46 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:48:46 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2011/08/19 01:48:47 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:48:47 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better then when I reconnected, as usual: 2011/08/19 01:49:20 :: Connecting to wireless network vinc17 2011/08/19 01:49:20 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:49:20 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2011/08/19 01:49:20 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:49:20 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Putting interface down 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Releasing DHCP leases... 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Setting false IP... 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Flushing the routing table... 2011/08/19 01:49:21 :: Putting interface up... 2011/08/19 01:49:23 :: Generating psk... 2011/08/19 01:49:23 :: Attempting to authenticate... 2011/08/19 01:49:24 :: Running DHCP with hostname xvii 2011/08/19 01:49:24 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient 2011/08/19 01:49:24 :: using dhcpcd or another supported client may work better 2011/08/19 01:49:24 :: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 [...] So, it seems that wicd wasn't responsible of the reason=3, unless it didn't log what it did. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110819232515.ga3...@xvii.vinc17.org