On Mon 19 Aug 2013 at 16:10:25 -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote: > > I have a wireless connection that disconnects sponaneously. NM claims > > I'm connected but I'm not. Can't ping the router (operation not > > permitted). Ethernet connection is no problem when wireless is down. > > Tried installing wicd with no luck. Not only no luck but with wicd I > > couldn't turn on the xciever. At one time wicd wouldn't play nice w/ NM. > > IIRC this is no longer true. Can anyone confirm? > > > > I just purged wicd and NM fired up my wireless connection w/ no problem. > > I'll see how long it lasts. > > > > FWIW I'm running Wheezy fully updated w/ fxce4 DE. > > Well, that didn't last long. Wireless ran fine until this AM when it > died and won't restart. As before, ethernet is fine. I'm floundering > here and could use a hand. Not sure what areas to research. Anyone have > any ideas?
Knowing what the wireless device is ('lspci' or 'lsusb') is usually not a bad idea. Next is to decide what you are troubleshooting. Is it your NM setup (which I have no idea about because I do not use the application) or do you suspect something is amiss with the wireless connection? For the later you could try: 1. Disable NM with update-rc.d network-manager disable 2. In /etc/network/interfaces have only the loopback interface plus iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid your_ssid wpa-psk your_passphrase Assuming eth0 is the wireless interface and you are using WPA. 3. Reboot and monitor the connection; /var/log/syslog might help with this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130820125604.gb4...@copernicus.demon.co.uk