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Monday, August 11, 2014

Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

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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Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

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.

$ ifconfig -a | grep wlan

wlan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 58:94:6b:79:8a:68

$ iwlist wlan2 scan

wlan2 Scan completed :

Cell 01 - Address: 54:BE:F7:D4:8B:18

Channel:48

Frequency:5.24 GHz (Channel 48)

Quality=39/70 Signal level=-71 dBm

Encryption key:on

ESSID:"HOME-2D4F-5"

Bit Rates:6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s

36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s

Mode:Master

Extra:tsf=000000b3eddd857a

Extra: Last beacon: 75120ms ago

IE: Unknown: 000B484F4D452D324434462D35

IE: Unknown: 01088C129824B048606C

IE: Unknown: 030130

IE: Unknown: 071E5553202401112801112C011130011195011E99011E9D011EA1011EA5011E

IE: Unknown: 200100

IE: Unknown: 2D1AEF011BFFFFFF00000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00

IE: Unknown: 331AEF011BFFFFFF00000000000000000000000000000406E6E70D00

IE: Unknown: 3D16300F0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

IE: Unknown: 3416300F0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

IE: Unknown: 4A0E14000A002C01C800140005001900

IE: Unknown: 7F050100000000

IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101880003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00

IE: Unknown: DD0900037F01010000FF7F

IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1

Group Cipher : TKIP

Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP

Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

IE: WPA Version 1

Group Cipher : TKIP

Pairwise Ciphers (2) : CCMP TKIP

Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

IE: Unknown: DD8D0050F204104A0001101044000102103B00010310470010A0C6CDD06F2559BD81B3FAD52C6045FF10210013436973636F2053797374656D732C20496E632E10230007445043333933391024000744504333393339104200093030303030303030311054000800060050F2040001101100074450433339333910080002210C103C0001011049000600372A000120

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Jonathan North Washington <jonwashi@indiana.edu> wrote:

I wonder if there's some laptop-mode thing that's causing issues. Things that come to mind are wlan power-saving mode and rfkill. Speaking of which, what's rfkill say when you're struggling?

Also, could you clarify "works" and "doesn't work"? Do you mean that you can't get even get it to scan for access points, or just that it won't connect (or something else)? If the former, what's "iwlist wlan2 scan" tell you (when it's otherwise not working)?

Cttoi, I'm left wondering why your is adapter wlan2... This might suggest some sort of driver issue, I guess? What's "ifconfig -a | grep wlan" tell you?

--

Jonathan

On 10 August 2014 14:59, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the output:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface

product: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth2
version: 06
serial: f0:de:f1:32:d4:7f
capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.3.2-k firmware=0.12-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

resources: irq:41 memory:f2500000-f251ffff memory:f2525000-f2525fff ioport:1820(size=32)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200

vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan2
version: 35
serial: 58:94:6b:79:8a:68

width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-32-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=172.15.255.28 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn

resources: irq:43 memory:f2400000-f2401fff

So just putting it in lock is fine, but suspend or reboot starts the fight to get connected.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Kiser, Ryan Lee <rlkiser@iu.edu> wrote:
You don't happen to know which wifi adapter your thinkpad has, do you? Some more specific details would help.

I believe putting 'lshw -C network' in a terminal (without quotes) should give you a list of the network bits in your laptop. Don't hold it against me if I'm wrong though, I don't have a linux box with me to try it out on.

Ryan

On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to this state (up in Elkhart) and I'm on U14.04 on my Thinkpad X201. I could not get Wifi to work at all initially. Then a Xfinity support person "changed something" and it . . . sort of worked. That means it worked after fiddling with enable, disable, (I'm on Gnome classic). Actually, I don't know what I would do, but eventually it would work. Then I'd put it in suspend, come back . . . and it wouldn't work. Repeat fiddling, rebooting, etc., then it would work. Any ideas what I'm having probs with?
>
> LB
> Elkhart

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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

I wonder if there's some laptop-mode thing that's causing issues. Things that come to mind are wlan power-saving mode and rfkill. Speaking of which, what's rfkill say when you're struggling?

Also, could you clarify "works" and "doesn't work"? Do you mean that you can't get even get it to scan for access points, or just that it won't connect (or something else)? If the former, what's "iwlist wlan2 scan" tell you (when it's otherwise not working)?

Cttoi, I'm left wondering why your is adapter wlan2... This might suggest some sort of driver issue, I guess? What's "ifconfig -a | grep wlan" tell you?

Jonathan

On 10 August 2014 14:59, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the output:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface

product: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth2
version: 06
serial: f0:de:f1:32:d4:7f
capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.3.2-k firmware=0.12-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

resources: irq:41 memory:f2500000-f251ffff memory:f2525000-f2525fff ioport:1820(size=32)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200

vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan2
version: 35
serial: 58:94:6b:79:8a:68

width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-32-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=172.15.255.28 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn

resources: irq:43 memory:f2400000-f2401fff

So just putting it in lock is fine, but suspend or reboot starts the fight to get connected.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Kiser, Ryan Lee <rlkiser@iu.edu> wrote:
You don't happen to know which wifi adapter your thinkpad has, do you? Some more specific details would help.

I believe putting 'lshw -C network' in a terminal (without quotes) should give you a list of the network bits in your laptop. Don't hold it against me if I'm wrong though, I don't have a linux box with me to try it out on.

Ryan

On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to this state (up in Elkhart) and I'm on U14.04 on my Thinkpad X201. I could not get Wifi to work at all initially. Then a Xfinity support person "changed something" and it . . . sort of worked. That means it worked after fiddling with enable, disable, (I'm on Gnome classic). Actually, I don't know what I would do, but eventually it would work. Then I'd put it in suspend, come back . . . and it wouldn't work. Repeat fiddling, rebooting, etc., then it would work. Any ideas what I'm having probs with?
>
> LB
> Elkhart

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Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

Here's the output:

*-network

description: Ethernet interface

product: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 19

bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0

logical name: eth2

version: 06

serial: f0:de:f1:32:d4:7f

capacity: 1Gbit/s

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=2.3.2-k firmware=0.12-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair

resources: irq:41 memory:f2500000-f251ffff memory:f2525000-f2525fff ioport:1820(size=32)

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

logical name: wlan2

version: 35

serial: 58:94:6b:79:8a:68

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-32-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=172.15.255.28 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn

resources: irq:43 memory:f2400000-f2401fff

So just putting it in lock is fine, but suspend or reboot starts the fight to get connected.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Kiser, Ryan Lee <rlkiser@iu.edu> wrote:

You don't happen to know which wifi adapter your thinkpad has, do you? Some more specific details would help.

I believe putting 'lshw -C network' in a terminal (without quotes) should give you a list of the network bits in your laptop. Don't hold it against me if I'm wrong though, I don't have a linux box with me to try it out on.

Ryan

On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to this state (up in Elkhart) and I'm on U14.04 on my Thinkpad X201. I could not get Wifi to work at all initially. Then a Xfinity support person "changed something" and it . . . sort of worked. That means it worked after fiddling with enable, disable, (I'm on Gnome classic). Actually, I don't know what I would do, but eventually it would work. Then I'd put it in suspend, come back . . . and it wouldn't work. Repeat fiddling, rebooting, etc., then it would work. Any ideas what I'm having probs with?
>
> LB
> Elkhart

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Re: [BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

You don't happen to know which wifi adapter your thinkpad has, do you? Some more specific details would help.

I believe putting 'lshw -C network' in a terminal (without quotes) should give you a list of the network bits in your laptop. Don't hold it against me if I'm wrong though, I don't have a linux box with me to try it out on.

Ryan

On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to this state (up in Elkhart) and I'm on U14.04 on my Thinkpad X201. I could not get Wifi to work at all initially. Then a Xfinity support person "changed something" and it . . . sort of worked. That means it worked after fiddling with enable, disable, (I'm on Gnome classic). Actually, I don't know what I would do, but eventually it would work. Then I'd put it in suspend, come back . . . and it wouldn't work. Repeat fiddling, rebooting, etc., then it would work. Any ideas what I'm having probs with?
>
> LB
> Elkhart
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

[BLUG] Xfinity, Ubuntu woes

I'm new to this state (up in Elkhart) and I'm on U14.04 on my Thinkpad X201. I could not get Wifi to work at all initially. Then a Xfinity support person "changed something" and it . . . sort of worked. That means it worked after fiddling with enable, disable, (I'm on Gnome classic). Actually, I don't know what I would do, but eventually it would work. Then I'd put it in suspend, come back . . . and it wouldn't work. Repeat fiddling, rebooting, etc., then it would work. Any ideas what I'm having probs with?

Elkhart

Friday, July 18, 2014

Re: [BLUG] new to area: suggestions for inet?

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:53:36AM GMT, Kevin Hunter Kesling [hunteke@gmail.com] said the following:
>
> ... Okay, you encouraged me to do some more digging. I /never/
> check my spam folder because Google relatively always gets it right.
> Sigh. I've been bit: there were the confirmation emails.
>
> Kevin

Kevin, don't feel too bad. Finding that a mail provider like Gmail is
sending legit mailing list confirmation e-mails to the spam folder is
equivilent to finding a bug, so kudos. It will help everyone.

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