OpenBox 11.11 and wifi with a mind of it's own!!!

[kamicota]

Hi All

Hoping someone may have some ideas here.

OpenBox 11.11 is on an Acer Netbook with an Intel centrino N 1000 wifi

Quite often it is so slow to load and at times won't when in Firefox and when I check it has changed to to "unlisted manual" from my regular one

Cheers for Years
Colin

[gseaman]

I would rename /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.old and try to set it up again.

Galen

[kamicota]

Thanks Galen

Could you please show a non cli man how to do that -

Cheers for years
Colin

[melodie]

Thanks Galen

Could you please show a non cli man how to do that -

Cheers for years
Colin

Hi Colin,
Open PCManFM, browse to /etc, then in the menu "Tools", hit "Open current directory as root". Select the says file, right-click on it and hit rename. Rename it as said Galen. Close the root side of PCManFM (be careful while you have root priviledges in a file manager... go slowly).

[gseaman]

Thanks for helping Melodie. I am using my kde4 machine at the moment, and didn't remember the easiest way to do it in Openbox.

Galen

[melodie]

Thanks for helping Melodie. I am using my kde4 machine at the moment, and didn't remember the easiest way to do it in Openbox.

Galen

Welcome ! (Do you use zram in KDE ? :p )

[gseaman]

Thanks for helping Melodie. I am using my kde4 machine at the moment, and didn't remember the easiest way to do it in Openbox.

Galen

Welcome ! (Do you use zram in KDE ? :p )

Yes. My laptop has 1gb ram. Enough for most things, but I am brutal in multi-tasking. I often have 10+ tabs open in firefox, writer, konqueror, thunderbird, konsole and synaptic all open at the same time. I think zram helps make this possible, but it is very difficult to set up a real scientific test to prove it.

Galen

[melodie]

I think zram helps make this possible, but it is very difficult to set up a real scientific test to prove it.

Galen

Right, to do a benchmark, it would also take time, if it is possible to do so.

Else, has anyone noticed a new Edu is ready for test ?

[kamicota]

Thanks Melodie

Did that - and when I went to set wifi up again - AGAIN it was in "unlisted" - so again set it up as the ISP wifi

Will see what happens I suppose

Am off to reboot and see if any other peculiarities take place

Cheers for years
Colin

[kamicota]

OOPSSS!!!  here we go again

After reboot - found after a little while through the pclcc it was back as unlisted - so set it up again and again it resulted in the same strange slow slwo behaviour - ie - trying to connect for email and on first start up of FF - showing - go to website - NOT my home page.

This reply is from the AMD Quad

Cheers for years
Colin

[gseaman]

I've had problem with connecting to wifi after using a usb-ethernet device. Do you have any other ways that you connect to internet?

Galen

[kamicota]

Galen

As of now the netbook only connects via wifi - although I can used Wired in the computer room

Just had about 15mins of fun and games - nearly every time i set the wifi up in Control Center or by right clickinf the wifi on bottom taskbar - it reset itself to 'unlisted"

Do not know what is happening - but maybe the Acer does not like to co-habit with OpenBox - what do you think???

Again tgis is on the AMD Quad - shut netbook down for a while

Cheers for years
Colin

[gseaman]

Network Center and net_applet are common to all versions of PCLinuxOS. It might help to ask in the networking section where more users of all of the desktops may read it.

I would also try a livecd of one of the other light desktops and see if this problem is related to your hardware or to Openbox.

Galen

[melodie]

Hi,
Have you setup your country ISO in the advanced section of the wifi configuration ?

Can you open a console, become root in it, and type "lsmod" : bring back the result please. You also may want to look here: WI-FI Connection Problem

You are not alone !

PS: have you authorized users to run the connection ? If not, the wifi won't be up when starting a new session.

[kamicota]

Melodie

Here are the results--->>>
[kakamicota@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost kakamicota]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
zram                   10017  1
snd_usb_audio          70631  0
snd_usbmidi_lib        15440  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            15287  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
cryptd                  6989  0
aes_i586                6948  1
aes_generic            25998  1 aes_i586
af_packet              17321  4
ipv6                  266689  18
binfmt_misc             5850  1
loop                   13873  0
dm_mod                 58938  0
yenta_socket           19176  0
pcmcia_rsrc             8880  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            10281  2 yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
cpufreq_ondemand        7592  0
cpufreq_conservative     7612  0
cpufreq_powersave        714  0
freq_table              2087  1 cpufreq_ondemand
mperf                   1003  0
nvram                   4805  0
firewire_ohci          25329  0
firewire_sbp2          11541  0
firewire_core          43040  2 firewire_ohci,firewire_sbp2
crc_itu_t               1103  1 firewire_core
fuse                   59455  3
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     20480  1
snd_hda_codec_realtek   226487  1
snd_hda_intel          19109  1
snd_hda_codec          66310  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4820  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_dummy           1135  0
snd_seq_oss            25264  0
snd_seq_midi_event      4648  1 snd_seq_oss
arc4                    1126  2
snd_seq                42136  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          4457  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            33854  0
ecb                     1645  2
snd_pcm                60446  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15383  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          12981  1 snd_pcm_oss
iwlagn                170878  0
uvcvideo               55339  0
videodev               56533  1 uvcvideo
atl1c                  28460  0
snd                    43189  17 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
iwlcore                52621  1 iwlagn
soundcore               5025  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          5877  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt                9145  0
processor              22399  2
i2c_i801                7002  0
iTCO_vendor_support     1585  1 iTCO_wdt
joydev                  7663  0
mac80211              189461  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
battery                 8843  0
ac                      2545  0
evdev                   7275  15
serio_raw               3462  0
wmi                     7495  0
cfg80211              126787  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
sg                     23483  0
rfkill                 12694  1 cfg80211
ata_piix               18602  0
ahci                   17997  3
libahci                16163  1 ahci
libata                154591  3 ata_piix,ahci,libahci
sd_mod                 31682  4
scsi_mod              150520  4 firewire_sbp2,sg,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1104  1 sd_mod
ext4                  312169  2
jbd2                   59959  1 ext4
crc16                   1099  1 ext4
uhci_hcd               19499  0
ohci_hcd               19566  0
ehci_hcd               35439  0
usbhid                 31267  0
hid                    63565  1 usbhid
usbcore               117639  8 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid
i915                  436678  2
drm_kms_helper         24151  1 i915
drm                   146364  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4568  1 i915
button                  4021  1 i915
i2c_core               16500  6 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video                  10008  1 i915
[root@localhost kakamicota]#

Cheers for Years
Colin