Monday, August 11, 2014

Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

It only has happened here and now on this home Xfinity wifi. Here's a "bad" session:

$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e wlan -e iwl -e etwork | tail -n25
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): DHCPv4 state changed nbi -> preinit
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan2/58:94:6b:79:8a:68
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 dhclient: Sending on   LPF/wlan2/58:94:6b:79:8a:68
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 172.15.255.28 on wlan2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x2ffa2ef)
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): DHCPv4 state changed preinit -> reboot
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   address 172.15.255.28
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   prefix 24 (255.255.255.0)
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   gateway 172.15.255.1
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   hostname 'hercynia-ThinkPad-T61'
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   nameserver '172.15.255.1'
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Commit) scheduled...
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) started...
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan2.IPv4 with address 172.15.255.28.
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: New relevant interface wlan2.IPv4 for mDNS.
Aug 11 21:59:15 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Registering new address record for 172.15.255.28 on wlan2.IPv4.
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): device state change: ip-config -> secondaries (reason 'none') [70 90 0]
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): device state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none') [90 100 0]
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Policy set 'HOME-2D4F-2.4' (wlan2) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Aug 11 21:59:16 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Writing DNS information to /sbin/resolvconf
Aug 11 21:59:17 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan2.IPv6 with address fe80::5a94:6bff:fe79:8a68.
Aug 11 21:59:17 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: New relevant interface wlan2.IPv6 for mDNS.
Aug 11 21:59:17 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Registering new address record for fe80::5a94:6bff:fe79:8a68 on wlan2.*.
Aug 11 21:59:21 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) successful, device activated.

. . . and here's a "good" session:

$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e wlan -e iwl -e etwork | tail -n25
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   address 172.15.255.28
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   prefix 24 (255.255.255.0)
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   gateway 172.15.255.1
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   hostname 'hercynia-ThinkPad-T61'
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info>   nameserver '172.15.255.1'
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Commit) scheduled...
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) started...
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan2.IPv4 with address 172.15.255.28.
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: New relevant interface wlan2.IPv4 for mDNS.
Aug 11 22:01:27 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Registering new address record for 172.15.255.28 on wlan2.IPv4.
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): device state change: ip-config -> secondaries (reason 'none') [70 90 0]
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): device state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none') [90 100 0]
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Policy set 'HOME-2D4F-5' (wlan2) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Writing DNS information to /sbin/resolvconf
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface wlan2.IPv6 with address fe80::5a94:6bff:fe79:8a68.
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: New relevant interface wlan2.IPv6 for mDNS.
Aug 11 22:01:28 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 avahi-daemon[1518]: Registering new address record for fe80::5a94:6bff:fe79:8a68 on wlan2.*.
Aug 11 22:01:33 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) successful, device activated.
Aug 11 22:01:47 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> (wlan2): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
Aug 11 22:01:47 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled...
Aug 11 22:01:47 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started...
Aug 11 22:01:47 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 NetworkManager[1525]: <info> Activation (wlan2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
Aug 11 22:01:48 hercynia-ThinkPad-T61 wpa_supplicant[1714]: wlan2: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED

I don't know what I'm seeing here. It works sometimes and others it doesn't without lots of attempts -- and an "everybody off the Internet!" order to all my family.




On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Kiser, Ryan Lee <rlkiser@iu.edu> wrote:

One basic question: does it happen anywhere else or just that network?

On Aug 11, 2014 8:12 PM, Mark Warner <mhwarner@gmail.com> wrote:
WPA & WPA2 Personal is fine.

Perhaps:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2190839

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179576


On 08/11/2014 07:27 PM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
> I'm on "WPA & WPA2 Personal." There's also "WEP 40/128-bit key" and "WEP
> 128-bit passphrase" and "LEAP" and "Dynamic WEP (802.1x)" and "WPA &
> WPA2 Enterprise."   Any suggestions?
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Mark Warner <mhwarner@gmail.com
> <mailto:mhwarner@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Try changing your wireless encryption. Some chipsets have trouble
>     with some encryption levels.
>
>
>     On 08/11/2014 09:41 AM, Lawrence Bottorff wrote:
>
>         Actually, it gives every indication that it's up and running.
>         The wifi symbol is almost full-strength; however, the system
>         monitor app shows weak or no real net traffic incoming. This
>         will go on and on with me enabling, disabling, rebooting, trying
>         Web, ssh, ping. But eventually it will work. I've got other
>         family members on Thinkpads (T61, T410) and U14.04 and they
>         don't have this problem.
>
>
>
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>     Registered Linux User #415318
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