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Re: Squeeze - Can't connect to wireless router



On 6/20/10 12:26 PM, Otto wrote:

do the following, and my resolv.conf

cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 207.225.209.66
nameserver 208.67.220.220


> It started working magically. I don't know how, but suddenly network
> manager found all networks around and connected sucessfully.
> 
> Now I have a strange problem. Everytime I want to connect to something -
> doesn't matter if it's web, APT, IRC, IM, ping or anything, it takes a
> while (several seconds) trying to resolv the address, like if the DNS is
> very slow. After that it goes normally.
> It's normally with any other distro or OS.
> 
> Doing a quick google search I found many complaints about that in
> Squeeze. One suggests adding 'options single-request' to
> /etc/resolv.conf. This is it:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg560847.html
> 
> But isn't that file overwritten automatically?
> 
> 2010/6/16 Otto <ottoteixeira@ig.com.br <mailto:ottoteixeira@ig.com.br>>
> 
>     > do you have firmware-iwlwifi installed?
> 
>     Yeah.
> 
> 
>     Sorry, Dirk, I couldn't test yet what you suggested. Tonight I'll
>     see if that makes any difference and I'll also paste here my
>     /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
>     2010/6/15 Dirk Linnerkamp <dirk_linnerkamp@vodafone.de
>     <mailto:dirk_linnerkamp@vodafone.de>>
> 
>         Hi Otto,
> 
>         Am Montag, den 14.06.2010, 22:40 -0300 schrieb Otto:
>         > Hi, I installed Squeeze yesterday and did a aptitude
>         full-upgrade, but
>         > I can't connect to my wifi router.
>         > The card is a Intel 3945ABG, which used to work fine in Lenny.
>         >
>         .....
> 
> 
>         > It's weird I can see the router with iwlist scanning but can't
>         > connect.
>         > I also tried without WPA, using iwconfig wlan0 essid linux and
>         still
>         > couldn't get the AP associated.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > Any suggestions?
> 
>         ...those things mostly happen whef your wireless configuration isn't
>         correct., for example the wrong "pair-wise" or  "group"
>         parameter .Then
>         you get connected but immediately are disconnected again.
> 
>         But before changing something:
> 
>         When you run your command "wpa_supplicant" with the -c option
>         you should
>         give it the full path-lenght as a parameter, for example:
> 
>          => "wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
>         or whereever your config file is located. Put this also into your
>         "/etc/network/interfaces" to the wlan0 interface block if you
>         are not
>         using network-manager or wicd as i presume.
> 
>         Try this first.
> 
>         Best regards
>         Dirk



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