I recently got the wireless internet to work at uni. But today and yesterday it proved VERY unstable. The signal strength flares all around from zero to 100% and many times I need to reconnect. Most times, today, my browsers wouldn’t connect even if the signal meter said there was a signal. I tested both with Firefox and Chrome, same result. I’m using OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit.
From that I got the impression that I shouldn’t even be able to connect if I’m having driver problems. But I’m not good at computers, especielly not networks and I’m new to OpenSUSE. So I might have read it all wrong!
According to Yast ==> Hardware Information, my wireless LAN device is identified as:
WiFi Link 5100 (wlan0)
Kernel driver:
iwlagn
The problem, I believe, coincedes nicely with me intalling an antivirus program. I installed ‘Antivir’. After thinking that it might be the problem I uninstalled it again, but the problem remains. I’ve had problems with Bullguard antivirus on Windows when using wireless, I figure it might be something similar.
On 03/03/2010 07:16 AM, Daqar wrote:
>
> Heya,
>
> I recently got the wireless internet to work at uni. But today and
> yesterday it proved VERY unstable. The signal strength flares all around
> from zero to 100% and many times I need to reconnect. Most times, today,
> my browsers wouldn’t connect even if the signal meter said there was a
> signal. I tested both with Firefox and Chrome, same result. I’m using
> OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit.
>
> I contacted the support, they claim it might be a driver problem. From
> reading this sticky:
> ‘Getting Your Wireless to Work - openSUSE Forums’
> (http://tinyurl.com/cwx2vt)
>
> From that I got the impression that I shouldn’t even be able to connect
> if I’m having driver problems. But I’m not good at computers, especielly
> not networks and I’m new to OpenSUSE. So I might have read it all
> wrong!
>
> According to Yast ==> Hardware Information, my wireless LAN device is
> identified as:
> WiFi Link 5100 (wlan0)
> Kernel driver:
> iwlagn
>
> The problem, I believe, coincedes nicely with me intalling an antivirus
> program. I installed ‘Antivir’. After thinking that it might be the
> problem I uninstalled it again, but the problem remains. I’ve had
> problems with Bullguard antivirus on Windows when using wireless, I
> figure it might be something similar.
Antivir is spyware, and bogus antivirus software. Furthermore, it is unlikely
that the removal procedure will actually take it off your computer. What made
you think that you needed an antivirus program. AFAIK, there are no Linux
viruses in the wild. Unlike Windows, where security was an afterthought, Linux
was designed to be secure from the start. As long as you practice safe computing
by not connecting to the Internet while logged in as root, don’t change
permissions on system files, and do not install bogus software, you will not
need one. Remember - if the program is not in one of the openSUSE repositories,
be very careful.
If you issue the command ‘ps ax’, any running program must show up there. Look
for something strange and use the ‘sudo kill -9 <process no>’ to kill it.
OK I looked through the list of running processes…most if not everything looks strange to me. Mostly because there is no description that allows me to identify the processes.