Hi, I am at a hotel where I can connect to their wireless hotel router with Linux. However, I lose the connection about every 30 seconds to every couple of minutes. I can reconnect again and then I am good until it drops out again. This happens both with network manager and with ifup. I am using opensuse 11.4 and kde 4.8.5 release 521. I am using Firefox as the browser, but I also tried to use Konqueror with the identity changed to IE7 just in case that might help to fix things. That also did not help.
I have tried to check google and didn't really come up with anything useful to solve this issue.
When I run Win7 instead of opensuse, the connection is stable and doesn't disconnect like it does with linux.
Any ideas about what I might try to get linux working well?
Are you sure it doesn't just need a keepalive? Does it drop you in the middle of traffic as well?
Often just keeping the connection busy is enough
Anders
No, it drops the connection when it is in the middle of update downloads, or watching videos, or listening to audio. It seems as if it is something to do with a difference between linux and windows provided information to the router. Technical support here isn't any help, they aren't knowledgeable about linux nor their router system. I spent about two hours with them the last time I stayed in this hotel trying to figure out what was the problem. It was a complete waste of time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org