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Oct 24, 2010

I have Vortexbox (fedora distro) installed on a laptop which I am using as a media server. I would have issues where I thought the laptop would go to sleep and disconnect itself from the internet. The computer boots in command line mode and what I would notice is that the screen would go blank and then I would have to go to the computer and jiggle the trackpad and it would wake up. I posted about it and got responses related to the gnome desktop which I could not find the files referred to in the answer.

I tried using setterm to keep the computer awake setting blank to 0 and powersave off. The same thing happens even with the monitor on and the screen display on. A gesture on the trackpad seems to wake the ethernet back up. Here's my old post: [URL]. Everything else about this situation is perfect. Vortexbox is easy to set up and it does everything I want, DLNA, streams to my squeezeboxes, etc, but this ethernet cutting out is exasperating.

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I am having an issue with my wireless connection dropping about every 2 minutes (web pages timing out), then working for a couple of minutes then dropping again. The connection icon in the task bar says I'm still connected at about 70%.I have a dual boot system and the wireless works fine in opensuse but not in Ubuntu 10.10 I have an Asus G50vt-X5 laptop but I am not sure about the wireless chipset.

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I have done this before on Windows however I am having some trouble doing this on linux, I have tried using Squid Proxy however I am having some trouble using configuring/using it.

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Here's what I know:

The machine is a Dell Dimenision 4500, 2.0 GHz, 512Mb ram.

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Sep 5, 2010

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As suggested on a similar post relating to wireless connection loss, I supply the output of sudo lshw -C network

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
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vendor: Broadcom Corporation

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The connection dropping began prior to my decision to upgrade. In fact it took several attempts to complete the upgrade. Should I attempt to re-install the upgrade? I am not sure how to do it without losing my connection. When I visit System > Administration > Update Manager, I am informed that my system is up to date.

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ACER
# uname -a
2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

# lspci -vvvnn
00:0b.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. TravelMate 2410 [1468:0312]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge .....

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Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic

After entering the command I have lost all ability to even use my wireless ability even if it was for 5 minutes. Now I am using a different kernel, internet still drops every 5 minutes, but would love to get my internet up and running again.

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Code:
*-network
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Nov 4, 2010

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*-network:0
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Mar 21, 2010

Toshiba A215 laptop
Driver is rtl8187
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:~> 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
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Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff10
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GRUB 1.7~Beta4
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Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14 - generic

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Two weeks ago I decided to ditch my XP install completely and switch to Ubuntu 10.04. So far so good, and I'm very happy with my decision. However, about 3 days ago, my wired connection started playing up. It keeps dropping out every 2 hours or so between 13.00 and 04.00. After dropping out, it immediately reconnects again (at least when I use Automatically DCHP config). From 04.00 to 13.00 it is more or less stable.

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The daemon.log shows the following information code...

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Sep 11, 2010

I set up the web/backup server for our department and I'm having some major issues. Firstly, the server seems to be dropping the network connection periodically. I checked all of the logs and it appeared to be an IP6 issue as the only message that seemed to correlate with it was "eth0: no IPv6 routers present" in syslog. I added "ipv6.disable=1" to my boot options in menu.lst and this seemed to take care of the problem. However, I woke up this morning and the server was back down.

This didn't seem to take care of the problem. It seems to occur when my automatic backup scripts go through. I have several BASH backup scripts that use rysnc over SSH to backup several computers to the server and the server to my desktop at home. I was able to trigger the problem a couple of times running the backup script this morning. Now, I'm getting the following error when running the script, instead of losing the network connection:

Code:
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892699] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000118
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892715] IP: [<ffffffff811426c0>] __dentry_open+0x240/0x370
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892728] PGD 1113d5067 PUD 11458c067 PMD 0
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892737] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892743] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Sep 11 10:22:40 chemistry kernel: [ 396.892750] CPU 1 .....

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We are having an issue where our network connection is dropping on our server. Everything was working for about a month without issues then suddenly we experienced a network outage. Here is what I found in our logs. Rebooting the machine was the only way to have everything come up.

Oct 16 09:20:59 server2 kernel: [2612816.936085] ------------[ cut here ]------------
Oct 16 09:20:59 server2 kernel: [2612816.936101] WARNING: at /build/linux-FpPMO6/linux-3.2.54/net/sched/sch_generic.c:256 dev_watchdog+0xf2/0x151()
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Nov 1, 2010

I recently upgraded a 11.0 installation running on Xen Server to 11.3. I am experiencing frequent network disconnections now. The ip address and default gateway is assigned statically. However, the system seems to ignore the default gateway after a while. Then after several minutes it seems like it comes back.

Code:
root@poe5e:~/ > route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.111.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
172.16.107.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default 172.16.107.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
root@poe5e:~/ > ping 172.16.107.254
PING 172.16.107.254 (172.16.107.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.107.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.515 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.107.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.484 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.107.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.496 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.107.254: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.473 ms
^C
--- 172.16.107.254 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.473/0.492/0.515/0.015 ms
root@poe5e:~/ > traceroute orl3akm1n
traceroute to orl3akm1n (10.111.19.19), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP
1 172.16.107.250 (172.16.107.250) 0.405 ms 0.398 ms 0.357 ms
2 * * *

When my sessions suddenly die and I have to coax it into routing correctly again.

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In summary, I am using openSUSE 11.2 x64 on an Acer laptop with a wireless AR928X card. I can connect to my WEP-secured network when I boot up. After some time (it might be minutes, it might be hours), I am prompted for my WEP password again. This never works, despite being the one which gets me on-line at start-up!. The only solution is a reboot. The problem is intermittent and doesn't seem to depend on my on-line activity. I have tried the following with the same result:
KNetworkManager
Traditional using IFUP
Enabling / disabling IPv6 support

I tried installing the compat-wireless package through YaST and then managed to get no internet connection at all. Went back to KNetworkManager and things "worked" again until I was prompted for the WEP code. I have openSUSE 11.2 x64 working on my office laptop without problem and can connect to my home network without any problem. My issues are with my personal laptop. I have reached the stage of booting into Windows 7 as my default option so that I can access the internet reliably. What I can do to diagnose and repair the problem - could it be that the card is going into powersave mode? If so, how do I stop that happening? I'd prefer to be on openSUSE but need to be able to rely on the internet.

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Here's the situation: I've got an eee pc 901 running Ubuntu 9.10 netbook remix. I'm using it to connect to a WPA-encrypted wireless network on a WRT54GL running dd-wrt. It mostly connects and works ok, but sometimes it just stops working for no apparent reason (the netbook still shows itself as connected), but you can't get anywhere until you manually disconnect and reconnect. Other times, it will drop the connection, and then quickly reconnect (or sometimes not). Obviously, this behavior is pretty irritating. At first I thought the problem was with the router, but I checked the logs there and they all seem fine, and other computers on the same router don't have this problem. Looking at "dmesg | tail" on my netbook, I see a lot of instances of the following error, which I'm thinking is probably the problem:

Code:
[11137.762233] ERROR!!! RTMPCancelTimer failed, Timer hasn't been initialize!
[11142.872797] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 440
[11152.883274] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 5(5) BSS returned, data->length = 556
[11152.883529] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=11)
[11163.952056] ERROR!!! RTMPCancelTimer failed, Timer hasn't been initialize!

I searched for that error message and I found this Ubuntu bug report: [URL] that describes symptoms that match mine. In that report, a poster mentions that he compiled and installed a new version of the wireless driver from the Ralink website, and it fixed his problem. Do you think installing a new driver would be good? Or has that updated driver already been added to the kernel since that bug report was filed? I've never compiled a kernel module before.

One other thing, I also see repeated instances of these lines (or similar ones) in dmesg, which look like they could be related.
Code:
[44096.275923] RX DESC f30ca000 size = 2048
[44096.276885] <-- RTMPAllocTxRxRingMemory, Status=0
[44096.281404] --> Error 2 opening /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat
[44096.281424] 1. Phy Mode = 0
[44096.281435] 2. Phy Mode = 0
[44096.309841] 3. Phy Mode = 0
[44096.314533] MCS Set = 00 00 00 00 00
[44096.316196] <==== RTMPInitialize, Status=0
[44096.316280] 0x1300 = 000a4260
[44096.401269] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=11)
[44096.472502] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 1(1) BSS returned, data->length = 116
[44096.472977] ==>rt_ioctl_siwfreq::SIOCSIWFREQ[cmd=0x8b04] (Channel=11)
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