Linux Mint 17 Wifi Connectivity Problems

[my.plants.eat.rats]

Hey all,

I've been on Linux Mint for about a week or so now and I've been really enjoying it. I've now got a wireless issue of some kind, though. I haven't had this problem until now, and I'm not sure what changed. Here it is; I booted up my computer and my Wifi was being slow to connect. I looked and it wasn't connected at all, and so I tried to do so. It prompted me for my password, and then it displayed that it was connecting. Then it suddenly stopped trying to connect after a while. No error message, no nothing. I've repeated this process with the same results, as well as tried another restart.

Like I said, it's worked fine for quite a while up until now.

Any thoughts?

Thank you so much. The help really is appreciated. If there is any further information I can get you, let me know.

Chance

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
      ==> PCI ID = 10ec:8179 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 54:be:f7:5b:3e:09  
          inet addr:10.0.1.25  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::56be:f7ff:fe5b:3e09/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:19 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:2130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:187410 (187.4 KB)  TX bytes:187410 (187.4 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 48:d2:24:ae:ab:7a  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		10.0.1.1
Address:	10.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.8
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.5
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.4
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.7
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.6
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.3
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.9
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.1
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.14
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.0
Name:	google.com
Address: 74.125.225.2

[PatH57]

Hi,


could you send the output of:

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lspci

and try to reboot your router.

[my.plants.eat.rats]

Well, I have no idea what the heck happened, but my wireless is working again. That's a plus, but in a way, I kind of wish I knew what actually happened. I am serious about wanting to learn about this! xD It would have been a good learning experience.

By the way, would it be customary for me to put [SOLVED] in the title anyway? I mean, yes, the problem is gone, but does that constitute solved?

Here's the output you asked for. Thanks so much for the help.

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM86 Express LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

Cheers.
Chance

[PatH57]

your logs seem alright
Don't forget there is your PC but also a router on the other side having to deal with DHCP, route forwarding and so on.
So glitches do happen, don't always blame the PC.
As an example I have 6 PCs connected to my local LAN and use port forwarding for some of them, when ever I make an update or if an update does happen on the router (your ISP may push down an update) I shutdown the PCs, reboot the router (wait a couple of minutes) and then get the PCs back to live.

[my.plants.eat.rats]

Well, I thought about that, but then I tried the other computers in my house while I was having problems, and they worked fine. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting, and it worked fine. So it wasn't my router or ISP or anything like that... at least to my knowledge.

Thanks for the help, though.