Re: Fedora 20: dropping wifi
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, jd1008 wrote:
On 08/12/2015 09:27 AM, Max Pyziur wrote:
[...]
>>
>> System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Screen Saver
>>
>> From that gui, click on Power Management
>> Be sure to check all 4 tabs of the Power Management Gui.
>>
>> R U running on battery most of the time?
>
> I would like to echo the problem that Henrik is having.
>
> The Wifi on my Dell Laptop (D630) has been dropping ever since I installed
> Fedora on it (initially F18; now F21). No matter which Fedora version, the
> Wifi connection eventually drops, can be restored a few times w/ systemctl
> restart NetworkManager
>
> and then eventually drops.
>
> I too would like to find a way of restoring and maintaining the Wifi
> connection w/o rebooting.
>
> ..... Rest snipped .....
>
The D630, and possibly the OP's laptop are old.
On windows systems, there is (was) a configure menu that turned off power
management of the wifi,
so that the wifi would always remain on.
On Linux, you can disable power management by running
iwconfig <interface-name> power off
Yeah ... I know .. it sounds as if you want to power it off.
That is not the meaning of it. It turns off power management,
so it will always be ON.
Much thanks for the reply; here are my results:
root@mercury ~> ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21e:4cff:fe3b:9477 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1e:4c:3b:94:77 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 583519 bytes 123081532 (117.3 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 876057 bytes 1232935812 (1.1 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
root@mercury ~> iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"brama"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point:
00:0F:B5:38:51:BC
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=30 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=63/70 Signal level=-47 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:14347 Invalid misc:7057 Missed beacon:0
root@mercury ~> iwconfig wlan0 power off
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
It seems that "Power Management" is already set to "off."
Max
pyz(a)brama.com