#1 2016-02-12 04:56:53

nonamemcgee

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[solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

Hello, I'm having a problem with my internet and I'm not sure where to look. I'm using stock Debian 8 with GNOME.

A lot of the time, when I try to load a webpage, I'll get a "Server not found" error, and have to reload the page to see it. Other times, the page will only partially load and I'll see text and links on a white page with no css.

I've reset my modem and router. I think the problem for me is specific to Debian because I've tried out a few distros in the last few days without this happening. I have tried using Chromium instead of Iceweasel and had the same issue. The device is an old Toshiba netbook. I've updated the kernel and realtek firmware package to the latest from backports.

There's probably a lot of things that could cause this, I'm just wondering where to start looking.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Last edited by nonamemcgee (2016-02-17 12:54:42)

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

Please post the output of:

lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'net'
dmesg|egrep 'wl|firmw|dhc'

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Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

nonamemcgee

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'net'

07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8184]
	Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fdc0]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169

dmesg|egrep 'wl|firmw|dhc'

[   20.149875] rtl8192ce: Using firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[   20.175530] rtl8192ce 0000:07:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
[   31.523537] r8169 0000:09:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
[   35.245387] wlan0: authenticate with 00:1d:d4:8b:5c:c0
[   35.589851] wlan0: send auth to 00:1d:d4:8b:5c:c0 (try 1/3)
[   35.603039] wlan0: authenticated
[   35.604524] wlan0: associate with 00:1d:d4:8b:5c:c0 (try 1/3)
[   35.622189] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1d:d4:8b:5c:c0 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2)
[   35.622724] wlan0: associated

xaos52

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

That is looking OK.
Try the dmesg command again after you experienced a hickup. If no more messages appear the problem is _not_ with your wireless. Or are you using the wired connection?

nonamemcgee

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

Okay I will, thank you. My setup is a little goofy - I'm using wireless input on my netbook and sharing over ethernet from the netbook to a broken laptop with no wireless. I experience the issue on the netbook whether or not it's sharing over ethernet to the broken laptop. I do have the issue on both computers when they're both online.

Last edited by nonamemcgee (2016-02-12 12:24:45)

nonamemcgee

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

nobody - Thank you very much for the suggestion. I actually went ahead and put wheezy on the netbook. There were actually a number of problems with newer distros that I was running into on it that I didn't see on Wheezy or original #!, so I decided to downgrade. Cheers!

Last edited by nonamemcgee (2016-02-12 15:52:45)

nonamemcgee

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

BTW for future reference, I did get it worked out per
https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Troubleshooting
Turns out the power management features for the card I'm using can cause the wireless to drop connections.

xaos52

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

^Thank you for the feedback.

nonamemcgee

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Re: [solved] Internet problems on old Toshiba netbook with realtek wire...

Of course!