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Yamota

Flaky wireless connection

Post by Yamota »

Hello, I installed Linux Mint 17.1 a week ago and I am having intermittent connection issues with my wireless where it constantly drop and reconnects several time per day. This is not an issue with the wireless network as none of my colleagues, who are sitting right next to me, have this problem.

sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py result:
* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:43a0 (rev 03)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"CorpNET"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 3C:08:F6:F5:45:B0
Bit Rate=52 Mb/s Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=45/70 Signal level=-65 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
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:10323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:961307 (961.3 KB) TX bytes:961307 (961.3 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:03:08:8c:81:f2
inet addr:10.25.12.17 Bcast:10.25.15.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6203:8ff:fe8c:81f2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:863662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3222883
TX packets:176740 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:325100873 (325.1 MB) TX bytes:46084148 (46.0 MB)
Interrupt:18

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Also when I run dmesg I see some peculiar messages regarding my wifi:
[ 5293.498107] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address, mac = 3c:08:f6:f5:4d:50 profile =3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90
[ 5293.498745] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address, mac = 3c:08:f6:f5:4d:50 profile =3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90
[ 5299.500899] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address, mac = 3c:08:f6:f5:4d:50 profile =3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90
[ 5299.500985] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Wrong Mac address, mac = 3c:08:f6:f5:4d:50 profile =3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90
Anyone got any suggestions? Because other than that it is working fine but constantly disconnecting WI-FI is very frustrating.
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Re: Flaky wireless connection

Post by JeremyB »

It looks like it might be trying to switch to a different AP with the same name. In Network Manager settings for CorpNET do you have a BSSID selected or is it blank? I would switch it to 3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90 if it is blank and if it does say 3c:08:f6:f5:4a:90 I would remove it and see what happens
Yamota

Re: Flaky wireless connection

Post by Yamota »

The MAC address was set to blank and I saw some other post, from a person with similar problem, which said to put a MAC address value there, so I did. Haven't had any disconnects yet, let's see what happens.

Thanks
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