My Arch (3.6.5-1
) is exhibiting a rather peculiar problem: when wifi is set up, all logs indicate that the setup was successful and that the interface is up and functional. However, when attempting to access a website (or execute ping) all requests time out (despite that connection is reported as working and signal at 63% strength). This tends to happen randomly after laptop is switched on - after some time the connection usually starts working and does not break until next shutdown/suspend.
Relevant dmesg
entries (full dmesg
output can be found here):
[ 13.858528] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready[ 14.024275] r8169 0000:02:00.0: eth0: link down[ 14.024339] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready[ 34.895920] wlan0: authenticate with 00:24:6c:c8:e4:a1[ 34.900827] wlan0: send auth to 00:24:6c:c8:e4:a1 (try 1/3)[ 34.902963] wlan0: authenticated[ 34.908362] wlan0: associate with 00:24:6c:c8:e4:a1 (try 1/3)[ 34.911153] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:24:6c:c8:e4:a1 (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=9)[ 34.911217] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready[ 34.911294] wlan0: associated
ip -s link
shows:
wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT qlen 1000 link/ether 50:b7:c3:1e:f4:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 14970982 50472 0 0 0 0 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 19116 233 0 0 0 0
ip minotor
outputs some failure messages:
[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[LINK]3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> link/ether [LINK]3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN link/ether 50:b7:c3:1e:f4:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff[LINK]3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DORMANT link/ether 50:b7:c3:1e:f4:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff[LINK]3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> link/ether [LINK]3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> link/ether [NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[LINK]3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP link/ether 50:b7:c3:1e:f4:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]ff02::2 dev wlan0 lladdr 33:33:00:00:00:02 NOARP[NEIGH]ff02::1:ff1e:f421 dev wlan0 lladdr 33:33:ff:1e:f4:21 NOARP[NEIGH]ff02::16 dev wlan0 lladdr 33:33:00:00:00:16 NOARP[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.79.218 dev lo lladdr 00:00:00:00:00:00 NOARP[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[LINK]3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> link/ether [NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED[NEIGH]144.32.78.1 dev wlan0 FAILED
All that should be loaded seem to be (output of lsmod). Any idea on how to solve this or what the problem is?