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I'm using the rt2x00 wireless driver for my rt73 based dongle and I'm on kernel 2.6.31-6.

On startup my wireless connection behaves normal. Here's the output of iwconfig :



Now after some time (15 minutes, half an hour, an hour or sometimes even after 5 minutes) my connection between the dongle and my wireless router gets lost and it sometimes reconnects automatically, sometimes not. In my browser I frequently get an error that my connection is lost. However, if I 'reload' the web page after that I almost instantly get the demanded page. Another option is to restart my wireless network using '/etc/rc.d/net-profiles restart' (I'm on Arch Linux).

Here's an output of pinging my wireless router that describes the above behavior :


dmesg does not output anything special about my rt73.

What's happening ? Is there any way I can get more verbose output for my problem ?

Thanks in advance.

Did you ever find a solution to your problem? I am having the same problem running Ubuntu 9.10 kernel version 2.6.31-16-generic.
Mike

Mike,

I am still struggling with this problem (for more than a month now). In the meanwhile I upgraded to kernel 2.6.32 but the problem still remains. I trying changing channels (assuming there was an interference problem)... I tried setting power management off with 'iwconfig wlan0 power of' (assuming my dongle was put in sleep mode after some time)... I tried physically repositioning my router so that I have a better reception on my dongle ... But nothing helps
The only thing I found out the other day is that if the problem occurs and I ping my router one minute after that it hangs again. If I do within the minute I cannot reproduce the problem, go figure.

Here is the output of ping I tried this morning :



One good side effect : setting power management off on my dongle made my connection (when it does work) faster.

Any help is more than welcome.

My desktop is KDE 4.3.4 by the way.