[arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Thomas Bächler's message of 2011-10-08 13:48:36 +0200:
> Am 08.10.2011 13:28, schrieb Philipp Überbacher:
> > I get just cable at home and wireless at university,
> > everything's fine, except that I still get disconnected from the
> > university wlan about every 30 minutes. net-auto-wireless didn't change
> > a thing in this regard. Here's an excerpt from everything.log, pretty
> > beginning with bootup. The reconnects in there are from manually running
> > '/etc/rc.d/net-auto-wireless restart', the thing that I tried to avoid.
> > I have no idea why these disconnects happen:
> 
> I cannot see any reason for the disconnects. If wpa_supplicant doesn't
> reconnect on its own, I don't understand why restarting it would help.
> Can you compare 'ifconfig' before and after disconnect, as well as
> 'rfkill list'?

The 'rfkill list' output is identical, ifconfig is different, but I
don't know how to interpret the output:

$ diff -u disconnected connected
--- disconnected        2011-10-08 14:38:12.055378633 +0200
+++ connected   2011-10-08 14:38:37.681563015 +0200
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@
         TX packets 876  bytes 67260 (65.6 KiB)
         TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
 
-wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
+wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500  metric 1
+        inet 143.205.193.100  netmask 255.255.254.0  broadcast 143.205.193.255
+        inet6 fe80::222:69ff:fe73:3c68  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
         ether 00:22:69:73:3c:68  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
-        RX packets 560395  bytes 839856020 (800.9 MiB)
-        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 30809
-        TX packets 286257  bytes 21785827 (20.7 MiB)
-        TX errors 6  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
+        RX packets 560422  bytes 839862941 (800.9 MiB)
+        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 30854
+        TX packets 286289  bytes 21789274 (20.7 MiB)
+        TX errors 8  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
         device interrupt 17

Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Philipp