didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> writes:
Le Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:31:16 +0200, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote about problems with his wireless card often deconnecting.
hi, I have had a similar problem (non-US citizen) and after having setup crda, it works now like a charm (of course depending on signal quality).
Quote from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup:
If you want to enable more channels on Intel Wifi 5100 (and quite possible other cards too) you can do that with the crda package. After install, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom and uncomment the line where your country code is found. Add wireless-regdom to your DAEMONS in rc.conf and restart (which is the easiest thing to do). You should now, when writing sudo iwlist wlan0 channel, have access to more channels (depending on your location).
Great thanks a lot, I didn't restart the system but starting the service I get a "nl80211 not found" error. Did you also get the password error or just losing the connection? By the way I would really like to understand why eth0 and eth1 are often switched. One boot I even saw finally wlan0 as wireless interface device name, is there a way to fix them forever?