When it breaks
should reveal all that is going on with wifi and why it dropped out.
Edit: I booted up my Pentium 3 IBM because I wanted to test out a suspect broken TP link wireless usb stick I have.
I wanted to make double sure before I threw it in the trash bin. Here are my readouts as a example.
Because I booted with 2 different pieces of wifi hardware. wlan associates that with a 0,1,2,3, etc....... designation
for wifi access in Linux. It looks like that TP Link Wireless USB is headed for the trash bin.
Code:
sudo dmesg | tail
should reveal all that is going on with wifi and why it dropped out.
Edit: I booted up my Pentium 3 IBM because I wanted to test out a suspect broken TP link wireless usb stick I have.
I wanted to make double sure before I threw it in the trash bin. Here are my readouts as a example.
Code:
Broken TP Link USB dongle readout
dmesg | tail
[ 872.607087] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan2: link becomes ready
[ 876.504134] ieee80211 phy2: wlan2: No probe response from AP d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 after 500ms, disconnecting.
[ 876.922032] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 883.320855] wlan2: authenticate with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44
[ 884.419216] wlan2: send auth to d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 1/3)
[ 884.620124] wlan2: send auth to d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 2/3)
[ 884.824133] wlan2: send auth to d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 3/3)
[ 885.028110] wlan2: authentication with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 timed out
[ 978.133466] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan2: link is not ready
[ 979.967286] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Working SMC PCMCIA Wireless N cardbus readout
dmesg | tail
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
wlan1: authenticate with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44
wlan1: send auth to d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 1/3)
wlan1: authenticated
wlan1: associate with d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (try 1/3)
wlan1: RX AssocResp from d8:6c:e9:5f:07:44 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan1: link becomes ready
Because I booted with 2 different pieces of wifi hardware. wlan associates that with a 0,1,2,3, etc....... designation
for wifi access in Linux. It looks like that TP Link Wireless USB is headed for the trash bin.

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