problems with wireless

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Diep Pham <favadi at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> On 10/23/2014 07:19 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> >  My wireless connection works flawless for some time and then I am
>> unable
>> > to get anywhere on the internet.
>> >
>> > If I disable wireless connections in network manager, all is well at
>> least
>> > for some time.
>> >
>> >  description: Wireless interface
>> >        product: Wireless 7260
>> >        vendor: Intel Corporation
>> >        physical id: 0
>> >        bus info: pci at 0000:09:00.0
>> >        logical name: wlan0
>> >        version: 73
>> >        serial: 80:86:f2:e5:1a:fa
>> >        width: 64 bits
>> >        clock: 33MHz
>> >        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
>> > physical wireless
>> >        configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi
>> > driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=22.24.8.0 ip=192.168.1.102
>> > latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
>> >        resources: irq:63 memory:b2500000-b2501fff
>>
>> I have an Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 card that also use
>> iwlwifi and I have to disable 11n support to make it works reliably.
>>
>> You can try by create file: /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf with content:
>>
>>     options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
>>
>> and reboot.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
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>
>
>
> I did not uninstall network manager.  I managed to get WICD to connect.
> It was slow also but maybe because of conflict.  Does WICD support VPN's?
>
> I have some other data.  The speedtest.net test on my netbook comes in
> the same as on the HP unit in question, but it works more reliably.  I
> still have W8 on the HP and I get the same reading from speedtest.net.  I
> have not used W8 on the HP often enough to know if it is more or less
> reliable.
>
> The other W8 machine is often connected to a server in the US for work
> purposes and the speed test showed a US location although the VPN was
> disconnected.  I deleted cookies and it remained in the US, where I got the
> better test results, although the first one was in the same .65 download
> range.
>
> I have already disabled 11n as follows:
>
> sudo rmmod iwlwif
> sudo modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
>
> Would your method be better?  Not sure how to make that file-  can you
> post instructions?
>
> thanks
>
>
> garyk
>
>

I have left network manager installed and it seems to work just fine at
least so far.

For installing WICD and removing/reinstalling NM you can to here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WICD

I have not found instructions yet for using VPN with WICD.


garyk


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