Wireless internet

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Is it normal that my wireless internet disconnects every couple of hours?

I’m using openSUSE 11.1 on a Toshiba L355-S7915

Just to note it’s not my actual internet, because I check the modems and all the lights are properly lighted.

2

No it’s not normal.

I take it you have established this is not a signal strength issue? You say 2hrs. Is that just a thereabouts 2hrs or quite literal? Is this a secure connection with no other similar wireless access points near by?

3

It varies, but it’s between 2-4hours, sometimes a little more (I think the most its done is 6).

And yeah it’s not because my wireless modem is less than 20 feet away. I can literally be right next to it.

And as far as I know we have the only wireless network around here.

4

I tried looking up the Hardware specs for the wireless in your laptop, {chuckle}… “Realtek 802.11bg”…REAL useful.

Please could you post the output of

lspci

I’d like to see what brand/model wireless card you have. I have had problems with my wireless dropping out constantly, especially under high loads (grrr!). I’ve got an Atheros b/g/n card in my laptop, so using the ath9k drivers, which seem to be spotty as originally supplied. Installing ‘compat-wireless’ from

http:// linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download
Download - Linux Wireless

has (knock on wood!) solved my issues.

(I’ve probably just jinxed myself by saying that though… {sigh})

Loni

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On 11/19/2009 02:06 AM, lornix wrote:
>
> I tried looking up the Hardware specs for the wireless in your laptop,
> {chuckle}… “Realtek 802.11bg”…REAL useful.
>
> Please could you post the output of
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> lspci
> --------------------
>
>
> I’d like to see what brand/model wireless card you have. I have had
> problems with my wireless dropping out constantly, especially under high
> loads (grrr!). I’ve got an Atheros b/g/n card in my laptop, so using
> the ath9k drivers, which seem to be spotty as originally supplied.
> Installing ‘compat-wireless’ from
>
> http:// linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download
> ‘Download - Linux Wireless’
> (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download)
>
> has (knock on wood!) solved my issues.
>
> (I’ve probably just jinxed myself by saying that though… {sigh})

The Atheros people have done a lot of recent work on the ath9k driver. All of
their changes are in compat-wireless. It certainly is better than any driver in
2.6.31.