For questions about wireless networking on Linux or other UNIX systems. Be sure to specify all relevant details (hardware model, operating system etc...).
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How to find speed of wlan interface?
I'm trying to find speed of network interface using file-descriptor. It's easy to do it for ethX, just calling cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed. Unfortunately this method doesn't work with wireless ...
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TP-Link TL-WR1043ND as dumb access point
I followed these instructions on how to set up my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND as a dumb AP:
Flashed brand new Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1
Logged into LuCI, set up a password
Disabled and stopped firewall ...
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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?
I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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Cannot connect to belkin router through linux mint
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 alongside windows 7. I have a Realtek RTL8191SEvB Wireless Card. This work's fine with any router. However when I try to connect to a Belkin G Wireless Router it ...
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Bad wifi with MacBook Air mid 2012
I have a MacBook Air mid 2012 with i7 CPU. The one with Ivy Bridge.
I have connectivity problems with wifi running Arch Linux which I keep updated regularily. Throughput and response time performance ...
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wlan number assignment
How or where does Linux determine the assignment of a network device? Specifically, wlan0 or wlan1 for wireless USB devices.
I plugged in a TP USB wireless a while ago, and it was assigned wlan0. I ...
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Can I run hostapd in a virtual machine hosted in a windows system?
I would like to know if it is possible to run any linux/unix distribution with hostapd in a virtualized environment.
My idea is to host a small virtual machine, which will use my Windows Host ...
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New Computer keeps crashing on fresh install
I have a brand new HP Envy dv7-7212nr, second one, because I thought there was something wrong with the SSD with the first one. After I install Debian Testing or Mint, I compile the wireless drivers. ...
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Spotty wireless with Fedora
I have this Toshiba laptop I started poking around trying to find out why it quits out so often and is just so bad. This guy seems to have the same problem with the fact that it works perfect in ...
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What could be the possible reasons for bad performance of TCP over Wireless or Sate-lite networks ?
I am running a wireless network having Linux(fedora 17) at sender end.We decided TCP_veno is most useful for my network,so we are using it as default congestion control algorithm.Still, We are not ...
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brcmsmac does not work
I am attempting to enable my wireless interface in Slax Linux, so far, I know the driver I need is brcmsmac, since I have a broadcom card; and this work in Slackware.
The driver is available and does ...
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How to backup wlan configuration?
I'm using Lubuntu 11.10 and I'd like to copy all files containing the configuration to access all wireless network which I usually use.
At home or at office it connects automatic.
I know that I can ...
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RT3290 Wireless still not working
I've been trying to get my wireless working for two weeks now. I have 1814:3290 wireless card. I am on Linux Mint 14 64-bit. I have tried all the suggestion on here:
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What are the other congestion control algorithms specially designed for lossy Wireless Networks like LTE and WiMax?
I am trying different congestion control algorithms for getting maximum throughput and minimum delay across my setup for TCP flow.Please suggest other available algorithms apart from
Veno, ...
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Wireless not working after update (Network Unclaimed)
I just installed backbox3, during the install im asked to connect to wireless, and it works like a charm, but after i update the system and reboot, i loose wireless...
"sudo lshw -C network" gives ...
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/proc/net/wireless does not show values unless run as root
cat /proc/net/wireless does not show statistics for wireless devices unless it is run as root, even though the permissions on the file are 444. The same seems to apply when accessing statistics via ...
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will tinycore work with S110 wireless adapter?
will tinycore work out of the box with S110 lenovo netbook?
Wireless is obviously the first issue to be encountered? can anybody report that it will work out ofthe box? or i will have to spend some ...
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Linksys AE3000 install on linux
I bought a Linksys AE3000 wireless adapter hoping I could use it on my Ubuntu 12.04 box. I found a website that walked through using it, but it didn't work. I edited rtusb_dev_id.c to add:
and then ...
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How to load kernel module in Chromium OS?
I've installed the Chromium Vanilla by Hexxeh to a USB drive, but I can't use it on my computer because it lacks the carl9170 driver, which is needed by my adapter (a D-Link DWA-160.)
I've managed to ...
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how to install and build “iw” for android 4.1? [closed]
i need to install iw wireless packages on android 4.1 device.
but i don't know how and what is the require version of the packages to install !!
also is it need linux platform to do this or it is ...
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get RSSI using commands?
mu network is group created by WIFI DIRECT, so i need to measure the signal strength RSSI between the client and its owner for android platform.
So, assume we know SSID and MAC address for owner or ...
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How to monitor other nodes to get RSSI?
I need to measure RSSI between two peers of nodes in same network.
If I have these two information:
SSID for their network.
IP for the target node to get the RSSI regarding it.
So I found this ...
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iwlwifi error, then WLAN is very slow and can't see other WLANs
I have a wireless interface Intel 1030 on a Dell XPS 15 laptop. lspci says:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)
Recently I noticed that ...
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How do I disable wireless on Mint 14?
This got closed on AskUbuntu because it wasn't Ubuntu enough for them.
I don't have any WLAN connections set up, and I always connect via Ethernet cable. However my computer has a small light on it ...
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Network Manager don't show me Wireless connection
I've just installed on my Debian Sid with XFCE4 network manager, but I have a problem, no wireless connection are shown. What Should I do?
I used to use wicd but I had problems to connect to free ...
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Debian - enable broadcom wireless controller
Ok, this is driving me crazy. I'm setting up an old Dell Precision M60 notebook, and I can't manage to enable support for its wireless device on debian squeeze.
What I tried:
lspci | grep -i ...
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Mint: equivalent command line call for airplane mode
OS: Linux Mint 14
Can someone suggest how to turn on airplane mode from command line instead of using the GUI?
Also can someone list what all are turned off by enabling airplane mode?
or how to turn ...
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Can't connect to my wireless network though GNOME
I am a complete Linux beginner and I managed to install Archlinux today. But I have no access to my wifi for some reason.
I get internet access in my terminal with wifi-menu but gnome tells me that ...
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Wireless on my Dell Latitude E5320 doesn't work on Ubuntu but works on Linux Mint. What can I do to make it work?
I have dualboot Ubuntu 12.10 & Linux Mint 14, both are clean install & updated with the latest. My wireless works flawlessly on Linux Mint but it's very unreliable on Ubuntu: every 15~20 ...
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How do I get my Virgin Media wireless internet to work on Crunchbang linux?
I am struggling to get my internet to work on Linux. I am able to connect to my wireless internet through any other device I choose but my laptop will not find it. I have tried using the hidden ...
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Can connect to wireless router but can't browse internet
I have a Dell Studio 1450 running Fedora 17. I installed a new wireless router in the office recently. And everybody apart from me is able to connect to the internet via it.
Google revealed ...
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Archbang can't connect to wireless
Last week I tried Crunchbang 11, it couldn't connect to wireless. Yesterday I removed it and installed Archbang from CD (final 2012 version). Everything was working perfectly, when I did pacman -Syu ...
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Fedora 18 No Wireless
Just installed Fedora 18 and I can't get the wireless to work.
What do I have and what have I done?
I have a Broadcom BCM4312 which is supported by the broadcom-wl driver. (link)
lspci | grep ...
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Wireless problem with RTL8723 and Fedora 18: can't connect to a wpa2-secured network
I'm running Fedora 18 on a Toshiba laptop with the notorious RTL8723 wireless card. I've been able to compile the driver using lwfinger's instructions from this forum thread here
wget ...
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The n mode on “iwlist wlan0 scan”
I know how to determine if scanned AP uses B or G mode, but how to know (using "iwlist wlan0 scan") it uses N protocol ?
if I use "iw dev wlan0 scan" and see if the cell has a "HT capabilities" block.
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How can I get Broadcom 4301 to work in Crunchbang Linux?
I've sunk about 6 hours into this and have not made much progress.
I've installed Crunchbang, 32-bit, Waldorf on a Dell Inspiron D600.
Before I took any steps, the network manager told me ...
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Linux find Wifi Networks trotocol(a/b/g/n) version of all available access points
I do use iwlist wlan0 scanning and it gives me a fair amount of data, but one part is missing. It is protocol version. By protocol I mean (a/b/g/n).
It would be very good to have these commands in ...
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USB Linux with Wireless support
My friend has a laptop without HDD. I have installed Slax to a USB stick however it didn't recognize the wireless adapter. Are there any thumb Linuxes with support of variety wireless cards? I suspect ...
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Wireless doesn't connect automatically in Ubuntu when connection is established with wifi Router Again
I am facing a problem here with Ubuntu version 10.4 I am working with. I am having a wifi router and when I start my system, Ubuntu connects to wifi automatically. But if due to some reasons the ...
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Configure OpenWRT as repeater
At home I'd like to configure one of my wifi routers to serve as a WI-FI signal extender. Since my main router is OpenWrt-based (Backfire 10.1.3), I'd like to use it for that purpose.
I've looked ...
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How to install b43-firmware on arch without internet access?
I currently don't have wire internet access in the PC I'm trying to install arch to, but my other PC (win7) can access the internet just fine. I tried downloading the b43 package from the AUR and copy ...
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Virtual Wireless Access Point
Basically, I want to be able to connect to a wireless network from my laptop. Then, I want my virtual machine to acquire internet access via a bridged connection from ETH0 of the VM to the host’s ...
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BackTrack USB Wireless adapter drivers issue
I purchased USB Wireless adapter which runs smoothly on Windows and Ubuntu, but in BackTrack it showing me Bad password issue. From my reading I guess it's driver issue which BackTrack Kernel don't ...
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Why can't I find wireless-tools in Debian repositories?
I have installed the squeeze version of Debian on a computer in offline mode (no internet connection during installation).
After the installation (that was successful) I edited /etc/apt/sources.list ...
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How can I connect to a wireless network with hidden SSID using the terminal? [closed]
I'm starting to learn about wireless pentesting with BackTrack, and while learning how to find out the hidden SSID I wondered how could I connect to the wireless network after I discover the SSID. The ...
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“PING” an AP to see if it's alive? (Before associate with it)
I would like to detect if a certain AP address is alive, i.e. by "PING" its SSID or MAC address (both known).
What program can I use to achieve that? I'm making a simple script that run as root.
(I ...
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Connection with hostapd stops working after 10 minutes
I have installed hostapd as package for Ubuntu 12.04. Everything is configured and works great for about 10 minutes; after that, packets start to get dropped and eventually I can't even connect. ...
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Ralink RT5370 Wireless usb dongle not working
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 014: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter
uname -a
Linux HOSTNAME 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 11:21:14 CST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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WiFi not working - wlan0 FAILED
My Arch (3.6.5-1) is exhibiting a rather peculiar problem: when wifi is set up, all logs indicate that the setup was successful and that the interface is up and functional. However, when attempting to ...
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Debian Cannot Access Internet Despite Being “Connected”
I'm have a problem, I cannot access the internet. I'm using a dell inspiron 6400 with debian kernel 3.2 installed. My windows manager is xfce4. I was never able to figure out the wired network, ...
