Hi, I have been experiencing wireless issues. Everything had been working fine up until about 2 weeks ago, when the Internet connection through my laptop became slow and unreliable. None of the other devices that connect to the wireless have had problems and the signal strength is good. It sometimes takes a few minutes to connect at start up but usually succeeds eventually, but then often loses the Internet connection after some time, from a few seconds to hours after it connects - sometimes it manages to remain connected for a whole session. The wireless connection indicator usually says the connection is alive when the Internet connection goes down - sometimes the wireless connection does disconnect itself as well. The Internet connection sometimes automatically reconnects after a few minutes but usually it seems not to. Disabling then re-enabling the wireless connection sometimes causes it to resume the Internet connection, and sometimes it does not. This has been puzzling me a lot!
The behaviour does not seem to occur in response to any particular behaviour - I'm usually just browsing in Firefox 18.0.
The wireless hardware is Atheros AR928X. The kernel architecture is 3.2.0-29-generic i686 as given by 'uname -mr'.
More output following the suggestions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6183681 is below, thanks for any suggestions you can give.
ifconfig output:
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:43:23:8f:cd
inet addr:192.168.1.117 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:43ff:fe23:8fcd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:34997 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:31049 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:28708500 (28.7 MB) TX bytes:7980726 (7.9 MB)
iwconfig output:
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID: wisc169br
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 68:7F:74:C6:B1:65
Bit Rate=13 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=56/70 Signal level=-54 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1351 Invalid misc:92 Missed beacon:0
'lsmod' output does not seem to contain any information referring to the wireless.
Output of 'dmesg | grep "wlan"':
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[ 41.657335] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 41.660994] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 44.630810] wlan0: authenticate with 68:7f:74:c6:b1:65 (try 1)
[ 44.632811] wlan0: authenticated
[ 44.652058] wlan0: associate with 68:7f:74:c6:b1:65 (try 1)
[ 44.655609] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 68:7f:74:c6:b1:65 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=5)
[ 44.655614] wlan0: associated
[ 44.662872] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 54.912064] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Output of 'sudo lshw -C network':
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*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:22:43:23:8f:cd
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.2.0-29-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.117 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:fdef0000-fdefffff
Output of 'iwlist scan':
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wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 68:7F:74:C6:B1:65
Channel:1
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=55/70 Signal level=-55 dBm
Encryption key:on
ESSID:"wisc169br"
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Mode:Master
Extra:tsf=0000010489152192
Extra: Last beacon: 19732ms ago
IE: Unknown: 0009776973633136396272
IE: Unknown: 010882848B962430486C
IE: Unknown: 030101
IE: Unknown: 2A0104
IE: Unknown: 2F0104
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: 32040C121860
IE: Unknown: 2D1AFC181BFFFF000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 3D1601001500000000000000000000000000000000000000
IE: Unknown: 4A0E14000A002C01C800140005001900
IE: Unknown: 7F0101
IE: Unknown: DD840050F204104A00011010440001021041000100103B000103104700100B741A28F7D61530ABE7F124A9B9B2C010210005436973636F1023000B436973636F2058323030301024000558323030301042000E30313331304A30343132303535311054000800060050F20400011011000A436973636F3230353531100800020084103C000101
IE: Unknown: DD090010180204F0040000
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : TKIP
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00
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