On Sunday, 2012-07-01, chymian wrote: > hi everybody, > > since a while now (at least a year), KDE does have the following behavior: > > while the WLAN-connection is stable, every thing is good. > moving my laptop (i.e. to the terrasse) where it often still has a 50% > signal, the pbls. begin: > > while it rechecks/reconnect to the wlan, plasma hangs (menues, systray, etc > all frozen, kwin still is responsable, can move windows) for a minute or > 2! that happens on movment and also, while I don't move the box - just out > of the sky on rechecking the connection. > > first, I used Network-Manager + plasmoid, which often was not able to > reconnect. I had to manual stop the manager, sometimes reload the module & > restart the manager, then wait till KDE realises, that there is network > again. after it had lost the connection once, it's keeping me asking over > and over for the WLAN-secret, which was already in kwallet and too often, > the only way out was to complety remove the connection and configure it > new. > > then I moved to WICD, (for the price of loosing my comfortable VPN's > setup). WICD is ****MUCH**** more stable, never asks for the password but > still hangs plasma now and then. but seems to be 80% more stable. > > > since I swapped hardware 4 weeks ago, it dosen't look like a > driver/module-pbl. to me. (b43 before, iwlwifi now). I also see this on > some laptops of friends, all KDE 4.4 - 4.8, wheezy. and I checked it with > three different WLAN-routers - all same behavior. Maybe it is a certain applet that triggers this behavior, e.g. something that gets data from a web service? I've never had any problem with dropping network connections, neither WLAN nor mobile broadband (where this happens a lot more often, e.g. when on a train). Cheers, Kevin
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