Hello, I never really understood wireless in linux, it has always "just worked". I use wicd although I don't really even know what that means. I have no clue what is a wpa supplicant, ndis, etc.
I now have a problem. Please point me toward the tools I should use to diagnose and fix the problem. I tried to fix this problem by running wicd-client from the command line hoping to see some stderr messages to help diagnose, but no luck. Also dmesg is not helpful. Problem: I used a linksys router for years. It appeared as a single SSID that I connected to. Configured with wicd-client. Everything worked great under gentoo. I throw away the linksys and purchase a new "apple airport express". This router works fine with my apple machines. On gentoo, wicd-client shows two SSIDs with identical names for this one router! One is on "channel 11" and one is on "channel 157". Not sure this matters. I specify my password for both of them and specify one of them to "connect automatically". The connection with one (or both?) of the SSIDs stays live for 5-10 minutes, then disconnects. I can get it to reconnect by simply opening wicd-client, highlighting one of the two SSIDs, and clicking connect. Repeat every 5-10 minutes. Question: What tools or logs can I use to understand why my wireless connection disconnects every 5-10 minutes? FYI this is what dmesg says during one of these disconnect/reconnect cycles: [55519.603007] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain [55520.041137] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S [55520.041381] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 [55520.195568] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [55520.494633] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [55520.595455] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [55520.598916] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [55550.414298] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S [55550.414523] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 [55550.551957] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [55966.719991] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S [55966.720250] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 [55966.863374] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [55967.147380] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [55967.248317] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X [55967.251736] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [55967.301004] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S [55967.301252] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x0-0x3-0x1 [55967.452333] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [55969.637135] wlan0: authenticate with 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be [55969.641690] wlan0: send auth to 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (try 1/3) [55969.643564] wlan0: authenticated [55969.643873] wlan0: associate with 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (try 1/3) [55969.647304] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 7c:d1:c3:cd:b9:be (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) [55969.654396] wlan0: associated [55969.657270] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Thank you, Chris
