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teki 12-26-2008 10:17 AM

HP550 with Fedora 10 freezing after connecting wireless to Thomson Speedtouch ST780 W
 
Hello!

I have very annoying problem (is there any other kind?) with wireless connection.

I use HP550 notebook with Fedora 10 and adsl connection with Thomson Speedtouch ST780 WL modem. The problem is quite inconsistent (which makes it even more annoying). On good days I connect straight away and the connection is stable. On not so good days my computer freezes after some time (0 seconds to few minutes). Once that happens the only thing I can do (as far as I know) is to switch it off manually. This does not solve the problem though, I keeps freezing when I try again.
This problem never happened when I connected to any other wireless network.

Does anybody have any idea what causes this problem and how to fix it?
I realize there are tons of posts regarding problems with Internet connections so I apologize if this question already appeared.

Thank you in advance!
Best wishes for the New year!

camorri 12-27-2008 06:21 AM

The fact that it works some of the time leads me to believe this is probably not a configuration problem.

The set-up manual has a Trouble-shooting section. It describes the lights on the modem and what they mean. Have you used this section at the time of failure to try and figure out what is causing the problem?

Your ISP should be able to help here also. Most of them have online support, as well as phone support.

Things to verify, at the time of failure, run the commands 'iwconfig' and 'ifconfig' to verify your wireless configuration. If it is the same as when it works, that should be good. If not, that may be a clew as to what to look at.

Your phone line could be the problem also, could be bad connection. I like all the connectors to be tight, and to snap in. Have a look at the connections you can get at.

Hope this get you going in the correct direction.

chromei386 12-27-2008 06:28 AM

Have you got another OS to troubleshoot with as well? It may help to try isolate the problem my using a friend's Windows computer, or your own. Just to see if it's a configuration issue.

Or can you plug in via ethernet instead, just to see if it may be some of the wireless configurations and not the provider? (If it's not a wireless-anywhere slide-in card)

alan_ri 12-27-2008 08:15 AM

Bok,i ja sam iz Rijeke.
Since I think that we got the same ISP,and OP I need your confirmation about this,if it's T-com,then I belive that we got a problem with them when wireless connection is an issue.
I've been trying to configure wireless for two hours and I've succeded,but after two days it stoped working.My wlan0 is present in iwconfig and ipconfig,the correct driver is installed,but it just stoped working after two days.I haven't yet called "our" ISP but if you know just a little about them you'll know when it comes to Linux they are very sceptic,because "we might be hackers".To make things better I have the same router/modem as you and on the same laptop on Vista wireless works.

camorri 12-27-2008 09:13 AM

Quote:

"our" ISP but if you know just a little about them you'll know when it comes to Linux they are very sceptic,
ISP's that support linux are few and far between. Linux will work perfectly if configured correctly. It has an industry standard TCP/IP stack. There are more servers running linux than any other OS. Don't let some unknowing tech ever tell you any different.

The reason to talk to the ISP is to find out how to set up your system to connect to their network. There are different methods to do it. What works with one ISP won't work with another. You need to know, is it PPPoE, or PPPoA, or some other method. Ask for addresses, such as DNS. Ask it the ISP assigns a fixed IP address, or they run a DHCP server. It can work either way. These questions are not OS specific.

alan_ri 12-27-2008 10:41 AM

camorri,
I was thinking only at my ISP.I know all about PPPoE and DNS and DHCP things,it's just that in my country there are still some sceptics when it comes to Linux,so I've thought that might be the issue,but after playing a little with Fedora today,there it was,I couldn't belive it-I was loading kernel in which my wireless driver wasn't built in,so logically I couldn't have wireless connection.So now connection works just like before and I will report if there are any changes.
I'm waiting for the OP to post some new info...

camorri 12-27-2008 11:14 AM

alan ri,

I posted that info more for the original poster, Teki. It is something I have seen too often. I know there are sceptics, I don't want to see people giving up on linux for the wrong reason.

I'm glad you understand that stuff...

teki 12-28-2008 04:01 AM

thanks everybody for your help!

alan_ri, my ISP is T-Com. now i'm connected to the same router with the same laptop using same OS, only with wire and everything works. i don't have any other OS on this computer, but i have another computer using Windows XP which connects to the same router wireless. Also works.

a friend of mine has the same router, only using different ISP, but his away. i'll try connecting at his place probably tomorrow and see what happens.

the thing is that i'm very new to linux, so i don't know much, and my computer freezes when it connects and there's nothing i can do once that happens (not even switch to terminal mode).

could anyone tell me how to connect from terminal mode to see what happens?

thnx again!

alan_ri 12-28-2008 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri (Post 3388566)
alan ri,

It is something I have seen too often. I know there are sceptics, I don't want to see people giving up on linux for the wrong reason.

I'm glad you understand that stuff...

I can't agree with you more.I'm glad that we understand eachother.

teki;
Since you are new to Linux,I guess you didn't try to install driver for your wireless network adapter.I will help you with that because at the moment I think that could solve your problem.It looks like it isn't ISP issue,but check anyway if things will work when you visit your friend.
For the start post the output of iwconfig and ifconfig -a from your terminal.

teki 12-28-2008 06:14 AM

you're right, i didn't install any drivers (i guessed it was already included in Fedora).

here are outputs for iwconfig and ifconfig (please note that i disabled wireless connections using graphical mode so my computer doesn't connect automatically):

Quote:

[teki@jimi ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

virbr0 no wireless extensions.
Quote:

[teki@jimi ~]$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:64:55:2E:86
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:64ff:fe55:2e86/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1421 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1523966 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:281205 (274.6 KiB)
Memory:e4600000-e4620000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:800 (800.0 b) TX bytes:800 (800.0 b)

pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr CE:46:32:6A:8D:EC
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr A6:CB:1C:A8:A2:79
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a4cb:1cff:fea8:a279/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:4572 (4.4 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5C:90:DA:CF
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:970 (970.0 b) TX bytes:3365 (3.2 KiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-21-5C-90-DA-CF-F4-CF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

alan_ri 12-28-2008 06:42 AM

Ok,please post the output of lspci -v so that we can start fixing this.

teki 12-28-2008 08:20 AM

here it is:
Quote:

[teki@jimi ~]$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at e4400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=8]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e4500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30d8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at e4600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at e4620000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 4020 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 4040 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at e4621000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at e4624000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=10, subordinate=10, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: e4000000-e40fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=28, subordinate=28, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: e0000000-e3ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 4060 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 4080 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 40a0 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at e4628000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, 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 40c0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 13f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 15f4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 1370 [size=8]
I/O ports at 1574 [size=4]
I/O ports at 4100 [size=32]
Memory at e4629000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1001
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 17
Memory at e4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
Kernel modules: iwlagn

camorri 12-28-2008 08:42 AM

Looks like this is the driver you need.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...l#Centrino4965

Hope this helps.

teki 01-02-2009 05:45 AM

Happy New year everybody!

I'm sorry to say that driver installation did not help.
I went to my friends and tried there. Two of them have the same router but different provider, and one has the same ISP but different router and modem. It works normally everywhere except here...
Actually it worked here for a while (few minutes) but again it froze...
I think I'm gonna try and call my ISP helpdesk - it should be an interesting experience ;)))


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