On 08/31/2012 05:56 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 23:27 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 13:29 -0400, Mark Misulich wrote:
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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
I forgot to mention in my previous reply that if I connect with Windows, the connection can remain dormant for hours and as soon as I reinitiate browsing there is an immediate response. The wireless connection stays active the whole time. The windows wireless connection is never dropped as the suse wireless connection is.
does that also happen if you do a ping in the background? So that you have continuously network traffic?
hw Yes, it does still drop offline even while pinging.
Also, I tried to get a static IP from the tech services guy, and it still dropped offline.
I am gone from the hotel now, but if anyone has any better ideas post back and I will try them the next time I get to that hotel.
It seems as if this is a generally mysterious phenomenon. Personally, I would try to observe and record activity using a separate system and a wifi monitoring tool like kismet to record interactions between the hotel's AP and both your Linux and Windows boxen then looking for differences in the traffic in wireshark. There could be something in the Windows box traffic that is not present in the Linux box traffic. Or if there is no difference, it could indicate a problem with the hardware, driver or something else on the Linux box. And one thing I've seen happening on Windows XP boxen is that they sometimes try to renew DHCP leases very frequently. Sometimes as often as every 5 seconds, IIRC. Having to do with broken DHCP on certain routers or something. jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org