Custom Query (39 matches)

Some people complained about not reconnecting after connection drops but keep in 'searching...' state. This ticket is to collect the infos.

Paperino	Andi_aw: first, it does not start dhclient itself...
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Paperino	Andi_aw: where is your dhclient exe located? here in d:/usr/sbin/dhclient.exe
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Paperino	Andi_aw: 2nd issue: sometimes here connection drops for some unknown reason; then xwlan enters 'searching...' state and it never reconnects to wlan.
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Paperino	Andi_aw: closing xwlan and restarting it correctly connects to interface.
Paperino	Andi_aw: closing xwlan and restarting it correctly connects to wlan.
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Andi_aw	connection drop is a dhclient or wpa problem?
Paperino	Andi_aw: ah dhclient does not close...
Andi_aw	dhclient is killed whenever switching between profiles or activate/deactivate (better solution would be signals to dhclient)
Paperino	Andi_aw: dhclient is not killed when searching for networks
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Andi_aw	OTOH when connection only drops for a short time, the 'old' IP should be valid anyway, isn't it?
Paperino	Andi_aw: yes, xwlan window changes bitmap and instead of signal level shows brown bars. The tooltip says 'searching for networks' and never ends...
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altsan	I sometimes see that on certain networks.
altsan	Especially when connecting to my smartphone WiFi tether
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Paperino	Andi_aw: XWLAN closes wpa supp when network disconnects... and wpa window is not visible while searching.

Some people complained about not reconnecting after connection drops but keep in 'searching...' state. This ticket is to collect the infos.

Paperino	Andi_aw: first, it does not start dhclient itself...
...
Paperino	Andi_aw: where is your dhclient exe located? here in d:/usr/sbin/dhclient.exe
...
Paperino	Andi_aw: 2nd issue: sometimes here connection drops for some unknown reason; then xwlan enters 'searching...' state and it never reconnects to wlan.
...
Paperino	Andi_aw: closing xwlan and restarting it correctly connects to interface.
Paperino	Andi_aw: closing xwlan and restarting it correctly connects to wlan.
...
Andi_aw	connection drop is a dhclient or wpa problem?
Paperino	Andi_aw: ah dhclient does not close...
Andi_aw	dhclient is killed whenever switching between profiles or activate/deactivate (better solution would be signals to dhclient)
Paperino	Andi_aw: dhclient is not killed when searching for networks
...
Andi_aw	OTOH when connection only drops for a short time, the 'old' IP should be valid anyway, isn't it?
Paperino	Andi_aw: yes, xwlan window changes bitmap and instead of signal level shows brown bars. The tooltip says 'searching for networks' and never ends...
...
altsan	I sometimes see that on certain networks.
altsan	Especially when connecting to my smartphone WiFi tether
...
Paperino	Andi_aw: XWLAN closes wpa supp when network disconnects... and wpa window is not visible while searching.

As reported in ​Arca Noae ticket #1160, the above condition occurs with the 14.104a debug kernel at address 5b:1db84c7c on startup.

Trap 13 (0DH) - General Protection Fault 0000
eax=666b7477 ebx=666b7477 ecx=666b7477 edx=00000008 esi=00000000 edi=00000008
eip=1db84c7c esp=00e656a0 ebp=00e656bc iopl=0 rf -- -- nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=005b ss=0053 ds=0053 es=0053 fs=150b gs=0000 cr2=025a10e0 cr3=7fe2c000 p=01
005b:1db84c7c 8a19 mov bl,byte ptr [ecx] ds:666b7477=invalid

The condition does not occur when xwlan.dll has been removed.