Re: wireless WPA disconnection issues

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <56DDBB10.1070800%libero.it@localhost>,
Riccardo Mottola  <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an issue when trying to remain connected to a WPA network.
>I use wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd (I suppose that's the only way?). 
>Connection happens fine, but after a certain while.. sometimes minutes, 
>sometimes hours, I loose connection.
>
>I need to kill wpa_supplicant and dhpcd and relaunch them and everything 
>works again.
>
>I noticed that every time I have an issue, I see in my dmesg:
>
>iwi0: unknown authentication state 1
>
>
>Dmesg says about my iwi:
>
>iwi0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x4220 (rev. 0x05)
>iwi0: interrupting at irq 11
>iwi0: 802.11 address 00:0e:35:60:1a:48
>iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 
>24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
>Anyone has similar issues? what could be the problem?

I don't know, on my old laptop I had a cron job that did a ping and when
that failed, it brought the interface down and up.

christos