Fedora8 loses WiFI and cannot reconnect; asus p5k-e wifi-ap

[a_simple_system]

Hi there!

I've looked through several pages and havent found a solution yet, maybe I have missed something.

When I start Fedora 8, the system connects to my WiFi network with NetworkManager, but after ~5 minutes it loses connection and is not able to reconnect. The time of the loss looks like fixed, but I can niot prove it at the moment.

Trying to run wpa_supplicant manually fails complaining about dbus not available. I've updated wpa_supplicant after the installation, did not help, I'm using v0.5.7 now.

Also, when this problem occures, I can not reboot/shutdown my system properly: the shutdown process freezes at the line "Unloading ip6vtables"

I do not use any password in my WiFi, just the MAC address verification.

So, in wpa_supplicant log I have nothing but this:

Trying to associate with 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4 (SSID='fnet' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

Apart from nm-applet I also have the KDE wiriless network status; it reports that my WiFi network is available with good signal etc.; cannot reconnect anyway.

I have tried the recommended fix , did not help either.

The hardware is the following:
m\b: asus p5e wifi ap, wifi card is onboard; iwl3945 chipset
router: asus wl500-g, works fine with wired LAN. After the failed WiFi I connect the router and my machine with an Ethernet cable, eth0 runs smoothly. The router is a DHCP-server.

I have also tried testing WiFi under WinXP on the same machine, got no problem with connection losses.

Any ideas? I'd be grateful for any help.

[sktea1]

Originally Posted by a_simple_system

Hi there!

I've looked through several pages and havent found a solution yet, maybe I have missed something.

When I start Fedora 8, the system connects to my WiFi network with NetworkManager, but after ~5 minutes it loses connection and is not able to reconnect. The time of the loss looks like fixed, but I can not prove it at the moment.

Any ideas? I'd be grateful for any help.

FWIW, I installed Fedora 8 in a VM on VMware ESX v3.0.2 and saw much the same symptom; at boot, the (virtual) wired interface would come up, but fail within a few minutes.

I configured the box with a static IP, but ifconfig would show me an autoconfig address. When I tried deactivating and activating eth0 using NetworkManager, it told me it was looking for a DHCP address. Well, the subnet in question has no DHCP, so...

After a bit of fiddling, I simply removed NetworkManager and immediately the box began working.