[opensuse] Wireless disconnecting
Hi, I had a problem with Opensuse 11.4 and kde 4 using the plasmoid-network management to connect to a hotel wireless network last night. I am in a different city now so I can't do any testing, but perhaps someone may be able to figure out what was happening and help me out anyways. I tried to listen to streaming audio on two different sites yesterday evening, using gmplayer, vlc, or embedded flash player in the web browser (Firefox 5.0 and Opera). About every couple of minutes to every thirty seconds the players would stop playing after dropping the stream, and I would have to restart the players. I never lost connection to the hotel router with the network management. After about a half hour of messing with it, I finally gave up and went to Win7 and WinMedia Player. No problems with it, no interruptions. Anyone have an idea what was happening and how to fix it in Opensuse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 25 Jun 2011 17:33:16 Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, I had a problem with Opensuse 11.4 and kde 4 using the plasmoid-network management to connect to a hotel wireless network last night. I am in a different city now so I can't do any testing, but perhaps someone may be able to figure out what was happening and help me out anyways.
I tried to listen to streaming audio on two different sites yesterday evening, using gmplayer, vlc, or embedded flash player in the web browser (Firefox 5.0 and Opera). About every couple of minutes to every thirty seconds the players would stop playing after dropping the stream, and I would have to restart the players. I never lost connection to the hotel router with the network management. After about a half hour of messing with it, I finally gave up and went to Win7 and WinMedia Player. No problems with it, no interruptions.
Anyone have an idea what was happening and how to fix it in Opensuse?
I wouldn't look too far at openSUSE. Did you ever have this problem before? Hotel wireless setups are notoriously bad, using consumer routers serving far more wireless stations than they are designed to. There are many ways a network connection can break other than the wireless association itself. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 06/26/2011 04:42:09 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:
Hi, I had a problem with Opensuse 11.4 and kde 4 using the plasmoid-network management to connect to a hotel wireless network last night. I am in a different city now so I can't do any testing, but perhaps someone may be able to figure out what was happening and help me out anyways.
I tried to listen to streaming audio on two different sites yesterday evening, using gmplayer, vlc, or embedded flash player in the web browser (Firefox 5.0 and Opera). About every couple of minutes to every thirty seconds the players would stop playing after dropping
On Saturday 25 Jun 2011 17:33:16 Mark Misulich wrote: the
stream, and I would have to restart the players. I never lost connection to the hotel router with the network management. After about a half hour of messing with it, I finally gave up and went to Win7 and WinMedia Player. No problems with it, no interruptions.
Anyone have an idea what was happening and how to fix it in Opensuse?
I wouldn't look too far at openSUSE. Did you ever have this problem before? Yes, I have had it before. It occurs when I am using the wireless connection, but the wireless connection itself isn't broken. It just ends up breaking the streaming audio. My fix is always to switch to Wind***, then the problem goes away.
Hotel wireless setups are notoriously bad, using consumer routers serving far more wireless stations than they are designed to. Agreed, but that is the problem I am facing.
There are many ways a
network connection can break other than the wireless association itself.
Yes, that is what I am trying to find out. What is breaking the connection of the streaming audio that is differant in Opensuse than in Windows? That is what I would like to fix.
Will
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Mark Misulich said the following on 06/26/2011 11:39 PM:
Yes, that is what I am trying to find out. What is breaking the connection of the streaming audio that is differant in Opensuse than in Windows? That is what I would like to fix.
What is your DHCP refresh period? -- System Integrity Revisited Rebecca T. Mercuri and Peter G. Neumann Inside Risks 127, CACM 44, 1 January 2001 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6/27/2011 4:25 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Mark Misulich said the following on 06/26/2011 11:39 PM:
Yes, that is what I am trying to find out. What is breaking the connection of the streaming audio that is differant in Opensuse than in Windows? That is what I would like to fix.
What is your DHCP refresh period?
I thought the same thing, but How would he determine this? And why would it work for windows but not linux? -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
What is your DHCP refresh period?
I thought the same thing, but How would he determine this?
The DHCP lease time is listed in /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ethx.info (replace ethx with the actual interface name). Also, that IP address is yours until the end of the lease time, regardless of whether the DHCP server renews or not. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 06/28/2011 08:38:36 PM, James Knott wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
What is your DHCP refresh period?
I thought the same thing, but How would he determine this?
The DHCP lease time is listed in /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ethx.info (replace ethx with the actual interface name). Also, that IP address is yours until the end of the lease time, regardless of whether the DHCP server renews or not.
Hi, here is the info from the file listed above: LEASETIME='604800' RENEWALTIME='302400' REBINDTIME='529200' INTERFACE='eth0' I don't know how to find this information in Wind***7 so I can't compare it to the info from OpenSuse to see if anything is different. My job requires me to travel all the time, so I get to use a lot of different hotel networks to get on the internet. Many times the routers give me more difficulty connecting to the network using linux than wind. Occasionally I will have to log onto the hotel system with wind*** and then shutdown and boot into linux to use the internet. Sometimes they give me more problems using them after connecting with linux than with wind***, as in this case. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mark Misulich wrote:
The DHCP lease time is listed in /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ethx.info (replace ethx with the actual interface name). Also, that IP address is yours until the end of the lease time, regardless of whether the DHCP server renews or not.
Hi, here is the info from the file listed above:
LEASETIME='604800' RENEWALTIME='302400' REBINDTIME='529200' INTERFACE='eth0'
That lease time works out to 7 days, so that should be long enough. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 06/29/2011 10:01:52 AM, James Knott wrote:
Mark Misulich wrote:
The DHCP lease time is listed in /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-ethx.info (replace ethx with the actual interface name). Also, that IP address is yours until the end of the lease time, regardless of whether the DHCP server renews or not.
Hi, here is the info from the file listed above:
LEASETIME='604800' RENEWALTIME='302400' REBINDTIME='529200' INTERFACE='eth0'
That lease time works out to 7 days, so that should be long enough. ;-)
I think that may not be the problem. is there something in the players themselves that could cause them to disconnect?-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen said the following on 06/27/2011 12:58 PM:
On 6/27/2011 4:25 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Mark Misulich said the following on 06/26/2011 11:39 PM:
Yes, that is what I am trying to find out. What is breaking the connection of the streaming audio that is differant in Opensuse than in Windows? That is what I would like to fix.
What is your DHCP refresh period?
I thought the same thing, but How would he determine this? And why would it work for windows but not linux?
Dunno. maybe it has short refresh period and something about the way Linux works means that the connection is dropped when the renewal happens. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 6/25/2011 8:33 AM, Mark Misulich wrote:
About every couple of minutes to every thirty seconds the players would stop playing after dropping the stream, and I would have to restart the players. I never lost connection to the hotel router with the network management.
I suggest you were being discouraged from streaming stuff on their network. Very short dhcp leases or other methods were probably employed by their house router. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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