Wireless disconnects and cant re-auth on Fedora 13 x64.
Hi All,
I'm currently using Fedora 13 x64 and have noticed a strange problem with my wireless. At random intervals it will disconnect, be it 5 minutes or 3 hours and then it will not re-auth no matter how long I leave it. The wireless is running WPA/WPA2, With TKIP/AES encryption. The router only supports b/g and the Wireless NIC is only b/g. Not sure what driver/software it is using. I noticed I do have wpa_supplicant installed but there doesnt seems to be much happening in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf apart from the below. Code:
[daniel@Enterprise ~]$ su -c 'cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' Code:
[root@Enterprise network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-wlan0 Code:
[daniel@Enterprise ~]$ uname -a |
I run Fedora 12 (Constantine)...before, I ran Fedora 11 (Leonidas)
What would happen after a certain time is that, when my computer would do certain things I think with power management, sometimes, the wireless card would not connect to the network in the house (my card is BCM4357; my last laptop's card was BCM4312). IRRESPECTIVELY, the connection was unable to be re-established (I assume, though in error possibly, that this is the case with you). So, I would issue the following commands: Code:
rmmod wl.ko |
Thanks for that PenGUiN_6_1, Unfortunatly it didnt work exactly for 2 reasons, I'm quite new to this and I am prob missing something obvious, Il list the steps I took with your procedure.
On closer inspection of this problem it doesnt seem to be a power/timeout issue, It only disconnects when it is under heavy load (Downloading above 800kbps+) I done the following with your instructions. rmmod b43.ko #the module is named b43.ko, This however removed the wireless which i believe is correct. rmmod lib80211 #I do have this module on my system as I found the lib80211.ko but it wasnt loaded insmod b43.ko #I tried this however it brought up the following error message. (insmod: error inserting 'b43.ko': -1 Invalid module format) I went into the location of the drivers before doing any commands. (/lib/modules/2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/) for b43.ko etc So hopefully its just a case of loading that module again, Although I would like a more permanent solution and not have to unload/load a module everytime this happens. Please bare with me as I am prob doing this all wrong! Thankyou for any help. |
Unfortunately I am unsure of such a solution. Believe it or not, another computer I know of had the same problem with Windows Vista...every so often it has to reauthenticate...even with a WIRED connection!
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