On 8/28/2012 10:13 AM, Mark Misulich wrote:

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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.

This sounds like some of these hotels have a very short DHCP Least time (around 3 minutes) in an attempt to serve all the tablets and phones that walk in the door, or your laptop is not handling short leases very well. You can try hard-coding the ip address (use the last one you were offered) and just usurp it. Any proper router pings an ip before it offers it anyway so it really does no harm, (Although other people doing this may be the cause of your going down). Another possibility is that your room is right at the boundary of two different routers, and it jumps from one to the other for some reason, and Linux is more sensitive to that than windows is. If I were there, I'd be tailing my logs, including my wpa_supplicant log if you have one. I'd also whip out my cell phone and turn on wifi and see if it stays connected. Since the phone is in all likelihood not running windows, that would pin it down to their router being very windows sensitive. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org