For some reason my wireless connection has gotten weaker all of a sudden(from 89% to 65%) and I haven't left the place where I am with the computer. It just got weaker all of a sudden.
View 3 RepliesFor most of today I had my internet connection dropping out on me intermittently. I assumed it was a provider issue, as it has been unreliable in the past. After it dropped out for good, and I could not print through network, I realised it was not a provider issue. All the other computers in the house were connected, including another ubuntu box. Only the MacBook Pro 5,5 was not able to connect. The network manager indicated I was connected to the network, throughout the whole time.
A number of restarts with the kernel I normally use (2.6.31-19) including one in recovery mode, yielded no change, but a restart with the 2.6.31-20 kernel resulted in connectivity. Finally, perhaps by chance, wireless started to work again on the 2.6.31-19 kernel, after I once booted into the Mac OS, and then back into Karmic. How I might go about diagnosing, obviously in hindsight, what happened? I suppose I should look in the log files, but I have no idea where exactly, and what to look for.
At first I was connecting to the internet via WiFi on my home network, and all of the sudden I couldn't connect to my wireless network anymore. The strange part was that I couldn't see my wireless network connection. But when I go to hidden wireless network its there, yet I still cannot connect.Im using the Ethernet core for now and it works fine.
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fasttiger@Beast:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
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I installed 11.04 last week. Everything was working brilliantly until I turned on my laptop today. Now my wireless internet is running soooo slow. Requests take like 5 seconds, then it loads the page for about 10 seconds. Last night it was running fast.Chrome/Chromium/Firefox all run super slow. I tried turning off wireless-N and using G instead, but that didn't help. My windows 7 desktop is not experiencing the same problems in Chrome, or Firefox. I'm not sure if it's updates that I installed yesterday that didn't take until I restarted today
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Don't know exactly what I did, but now I have no wireless. So I ran a few commands (lshw -C network, iwconfig, ifconfig, and iwlist scan), and looking at the results I see what appear to be inconsistencies in the output. I've posted them below, and make the following observations:
1. Under the lshw it refers to my wireless connection logical name as wmaster0, and has the correct MAC address, etc.
2. Under the iwconfig it says, 'wmaster0 no wireless extensions', but then refers to wlan0 as the wireless connection (although it does not seem to be running).
3. Under ifconfig I see both a wlan0 and a wlan0:avahi. The wlan0 has no IP, the wlan0:avahi does, but it is incorrect.
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Its a case of ".... wireless network connection active but still not internet connection .."I am using WEP - 128 key ... Works when I connect directly using ethernet cable ... but not wireless (pci and wireless router)
ubuadmin@ubucomputer:~$ ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:25:12:83:3b
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::206:25ff:fe12:833b/64 Scope:Link[code].....
I have installed Fedora 11 recently. I want to share my Internet connection.
I have e LAN connection eth0 which is connected to internet.
I have a Wireless connection wlan0.
I want to share my internet connection with wireless connection.
My problem is exactly the same as [URL]
but I am stuck at the last hurdle
here are the output of the command that helped to solve the case in the previous post:
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:77:d2:59:55
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:fed2:5955/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
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I have also tried sudo dhclient but it hasn't helped and I am still unable to connect to the internet
I have two linux laptops. Currently, I'm using both of them at work, side-by-side. Now the problem is, I'm connected to a wireless router, but the wireless only works on one of the laptops. So I'm stuck with one laptop that has no access to the internet. Both machines do, however, have working ethernet nic cards. So, I was wondering if I could use the laptop with the wireless connection to share the internet connection with my other linux machine and access the internet on both of them. Or as an alternative, just use the internet on the machine without wireless and be able to switch back and forth, that would increase my productivity like 30 fold.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI was connecting to the internet with no problems at all until two days ago. a while back I set my local IP to #.#.#.11, the internet failed.
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I removed the added code from /etc/network/interfaces and the internet started up again, however the card retained the .11 IP address and has done through many installs... Don't know why or how, probably just a router DHCP setting not retiring the IP of machines.
That wasn't a problem as far as I know.
Ok, so I check a wired connected win7 pc and an ipconfig /all shows he's got the #.#.#.11 address. Checked a wireless win7 netbook and it got a #.#.#.24 address
Wireless key double checked and is correct.
I'm now on my WinXP partition (dual boot with the same ubuntu install that won't connect to the internet) it's getting the IP #.#.#.5 and is connecting with no trouble(albeit slow windows)
All machines are set to automatic configure, but obviously retain the same ip for a while.
I've tried
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iwconfig show that the wireless card is indeed wlan0
Here's basic information
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Wireless card on non-connecting machine: Belkin N+ wireless card, v2001, NDISWRAPPER
will this work?:
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The problem is that if I try and connect to the router it does the "connecting rotating circle" and then just either has a message "disconnected from wireless" or asks me again and again for the WPA key, which is already correct.
LiveCD and fresh install both fail, used ndiswrapper and it's always worked fine before.
using Ubuntu 10.04
How I can get connected again? This is a desktop, a wired connection is just NOT possible.
In Gnome, I can get my wireless connection working no problem. However, my work PC uses KDE and I'm kind of used to it now, so I've installed KDE on to my Fedora system (v11, 64-bit). I cannot get a wireless connection with KDE at all.
As an aside, Gnome manages my dual monitor set-up just fine, whilst KDE doesn't - it gives me the same display on both screens.
why what is effectively a different front-end should make such a difference to the internal programs - a bit like respraying your car from red to blue and then finding out you need to change the engine as well.
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poe jk # lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c045 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:2005 Dell Computer Corp. RT7D50 Keyboard
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sudo iwconfig ra0 essid MYID
What can I do to bypass this step?
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