dropping connection after unspecified time

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Toshiba A215 laptop
Driver is rtl8187
I really need help making the connection constant and non-dropping. I’ve had opensuse 11.2 since march 7 2010, figured out most of it by lurking and reading threads didn’t want to make threads but I really don’t know what to do to make this connection stay on. I am posting Terminal commands from when I am both on and offline.

How I attempted to fix this issue myself:
I downloaded wireshark, wicd,knetworkmanager. Tried running all of them nothing worked.
I went into Yast and switched off networkmanager and went traditional still nothing.
Tried adding opendns to traditional. nothing.
Went back to NM would get online then after an unknown time I’d lose connection even though NM said i was still connected.

Offline running terminal commands from what I read on here in other threads and stickies

:~> ping -c 5 66.70.73.150
PING 66.70.73.150 (66.70.73.150) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.28 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.28 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

— 66.70.73.150 ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms
, pipe 2

:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 | grep Mb
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm

:~> sudo /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 rate 24M

:~> /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f81fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f7ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f8200000-f82fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000040000000-00000000400fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0e, subordinate=13, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 8440 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8434 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8438 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8430 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at f8609000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f8604000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f8605000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f8606000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f8607000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f8608000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f8609400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8420 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff0a
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f8600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=19, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: f8300000-f83fffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: k8temp

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169

14:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at f8300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394

14:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at f8300800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

14:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f8300c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

14:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f8301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

:~> ps -F | fgrep dhclient
1000 2927 1511 0 1281 708 0 16:06 pts/2 00:00:00 fgrep dhclient

:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“znne”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:23:97:2B:A1:78
Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=59/70 Signal level=-51 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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Terminal Commands while online

:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:“znne”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 00:23:97:2B:A1:78
Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

:~> /usr/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 | grep Mb
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm

:~> dmesg | tail -20
405.464409] wlan0 direct probe responded
405.464413] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:23:97:2b:a1:78
405.466156] wlan0: authenticated
405.466159] wlan0: associate with AP 00:23:97:2b:a1:78
405.468645] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:23:97:2b:a1:78 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
405.468649] wlan0: associated
417.482895] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44445 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1144 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A0055F35F0000000001030307)
420.481959] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44446 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1144 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A0055F5B70000000001030307)
426.482296] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44447 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1144 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A0055FA670000000001030307)
428.743291] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
447.483687] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
447.805339] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
448.124026] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
548.583383] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25993 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1145 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A005659C90000000001030307)
551.579530] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25994 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1145 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A00565C210000000001030307)
557.579848] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25995 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1145 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A005660D10000000001030307)
570.226004] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=25996 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1145 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A00566A310000000001030307)
578.581634] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
578.907928] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
579.226253] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58

:~> ping -c 5 66.70.73.150PING 66.70.73.150 (66.70.73.150) 56(84) bytes of data.

— 66.70.73.150 ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4000ms

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Is this on some usb mode-switching device? I don’t see wireless in your lspci.

4

I have two devices that use rtl8187, an RTL8187L and RTL8187B. Neither shows any
instability. Most of the messages that you posted show packet drops by your
firewall. For example,

417.482895] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT=
> MAC=00:16:44:96:9c:8a:00:23:97:2b:a1:72:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1
> DST=192.168.1.27 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44445 DF PROTO=TCP
> SPT=1144 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT
> (020405B40402080A0055F35F0000000001030307)

indicates that a packet from 192.168.1.1 (likely your router) to 192.168.1.27
(your STA) was blocked. This looks very suspicious.

Have you modified the firewall rules? Before you post a networking problem,
ALWAYS try with the firewall off.

5

I should have seen that…

6

ah ok…
turn off firewall,I didn’t even know it was on
…off to yast I go.

Wow my firewall was on. I turned it off and the automatic feature of it. Here’s hoping this fixes everything.

Thanks for the help!

7

Follow up…can I remove wicd without messing anything up? and does it matter if I turned off 1pv6?

8

Marslightyear wrote:
> Follow up…can I remove wicd without messing anything up? and does it
> matter if I turned off 1pv6?

wicd i don’t know…

but, turning off IPv6 helps lots of folks…do it and see, it is
easily reversible…here is an earlier posting of mine that walks you
though the process:

http://tinyurl.com/yg4utvs

–
palladium

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Same issue. Turned off firewall then shortly thereafter lost connection.
I am trying to think of what to do…i deleted my profiles in networkmanager and rebooted and let it create a new profile and i am now online but i am not sure for how long…
Is there something else I can check?

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ran these while I’m online.

I am seeing errors here, can I fix?

dmesg | tail -20
267.197942] FS-Cache: Netfs ‘nfs’ registered for caching
317.280275] ata5: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
317.316594] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
317.316623] ata5.00: ST_FIRST: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x59
317.316640] ata5.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
317.316642] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
317.316644] res 59/0c:09:09:1c:eb/00:00:00:00:00/a8 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
317.316665] ata5.00: status: { DRDY DRQ ERR }
317.316705] ata5: soft resetting link
317.560451] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
317.560477] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
322.494047] ata5: soft resetting link
322.720722] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
322.720741] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
327.657438] ata5: soft resetting link
327.888477] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
327.888496] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
327.888504] ata5.00: disabled
327.888556] ata5: soft resetting link
328.051698] ata5: EH complete

FreemanJones@Alternity:~> ps -F | fgrep dhclient1000 7942 7521 0 1281 708 1 12:26 pts/1 00:00:00 fgrep dhclient
FreemanJones@Alternity:~> sudo /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp
root’s password:
sudo: /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp: command not found
FreemanJones@Alternity:~> /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp
bash: /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp: Permission denied
FreemanJones@Alternity:~> /sbin/lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: f8000000-f81fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f7ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: f8200000-f82fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000040000000-00000000400fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0e, subordinate=13, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 8440 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8434 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8438 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8430 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8400 [size=16]
Memory at f8609000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f8604000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f8605000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f8606000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at f8607000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f8608000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f8609400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8410 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 8420 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff0a
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at f8600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=14, subordinate=19, sec-latency=64
Memory behind bridge: f8300000-f83fffff

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: k8temp

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff1a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>

08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at f8200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169

14:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
Memory at f8300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394

14:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at f8300800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

14:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f8300c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

14:06.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at f8301000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>

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On 03/21/2010 09:56 AM, Knurpht wrote:
>
> Is this on some usb mode-switching device? I don’t see wireless in your
> lspci.

It is a USB device, but not mode switching. The lsusb command would have shown it.

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On 03/21/2010 11:46 AM, Marslightyear wrote:
>
> ran these while I’m online.
>
>>
>>
>> I am seeing errors here, can I fix?
>>
>> dmesg | tail -20
>> 267.197942] FS-Cache: Netfs ‘nfs’ registered for caching
>> 317.280275] ata5: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
>> 317.316594] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action
>> 0x6 frozen
>> 317.316623] ata5.00: ST_FIRST: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat
>> 0x59
>> 317.316640] ata5.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>> 317.316642] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>> 00 00
>> 317.316644] res 59/0c:09:09:1c:eb/00:00:00:00:00/a8 Emask
>> 0x2 (HSM violation)
>> 317.316665] ata5.00: status: { DRDY DRQ ERR }
>> 317.316705] ata5: soft resetting link
>> 317.560451] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
>> 317.560477] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
>> 322.494047] ata5: soft resetting link
>> 322.720722] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
>> 322.720741] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
>> 327.657438] ata5: soft resetting link
>> 327.888477] ata5.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x3)
>> 327.888496] ata5.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
>> 327.888504] ata5.00: disabled
>> 327.888556] ata5: soft resetting link
>> 328.051698] ata5: EH complete

These are disk system errors. If this is a laptop, you could try re-seating the
hard drive. If a desktop, try re-seating the cables. If that does not help, make
sure your system is backed up.

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The usb thing, thats what’s causing the drop? how can I fix that?

and yes its a laptop…how can i re-seat the harddrive?

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keep losing connection so i closed the nm-applet then restarted it with terminal I am hoping to trouble shoot if it crashes again so I can see what’s causing the crash.

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On 03/21/2010 01:46 PM, Marslightyear wrote:
>
> keep losing connection so i closed the nm-applet then restarted it with
> terminal I am hoping to trouble shoot if it crashes again so I can see
> what’s causing the crash.

So far you have not shown us any messages that indicate a network problem other
than those firewall drops. The other messages were disk errors. AFAICT, there
are no network problems.

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what can i run to monitor my connection? i look at my connection and it randomly goes idle and then disconnects. I don’t think a hard drive can cause that? i can stay online when in vista and i can get online in OpenSuse but it won’t stay active then it disconnects itself. If thats a hardware problem i don’t know where to look but if its not then its a network problem.

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On 03/21/2010 04:16 PM, Marslightyear wrote:
>
> what can i run to monitor my connection? i look at my connection and it
> randomly goes idle and then disconnects. I don’t think a hard drive can
> cause that? i can stay online when in vista and i can get online in
> OpenSuse but it won’t stay active then it disconnects itself. If thats
> a hardware problem i don’t know where to look but if its not then its a
> network problem.

You need to show us messages from the output of ‘dmesg’. Any disconnects will be
there.

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Been messing around and googling and found a few things.
After adding opendns to profile used in networkmanager I say online more or less with more stability but I still drop connection.

I ran a code in terminal as su and accessed my /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp directory, while reading I see the lease time is set to what the last one was. Since I never set the lease time to me that’d explain the wild connection problems. If I read it correctly there is no lease time set

DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE=“yes”

Type: integer

Default: “”

Lease time to request ( -l option)

Specifies (in seconds) the lease that is suggested to the server.

The default is 1 hour, use -1 to request infinite lease time.

DHCLIENT_LEASE_TIME=""

Type: yesno

Default: yes

dhcpcd -E/–lastlease option

This setting controls whether dhcpcd should try to use DHCP settings

provided in its last lease when the dhcp-server is not reachable and

the lease hasn’t expired yet.

Set this variable to “no” to disable the fallback to the last lease.

How do I change the lease time to infinite( -1) ?

But then again it could be an issue with incoming data since I usually experienced the drop while downloading a file or watching something in Hulu or youtube. Not always but mostly.

So my question is how can I set a lease time via networkmanager? In fact how to access networkmanagers configuration? its “nm-something” but I tried config and it does nothing.

Also is there a terminal command I can use to monitor my wifi as it is ongoing so once it drops or goes idle I can see where?

I don’t think its a hardware problem because I don’t lose connection when I am in vista but when I am in opensuse my connection goes idle by itself then disconnects. There has to be a way to stop it from doing that. Can someone help me please?

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Is it dmesg | tail -20 I run in terminal? Just dmesg?

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just ran dmesg while online and thats a whole lot of information. Once it disconnects where I can start and end at because that is a whole lot of info…