Wireless connection with a Centrino Wireless-N 1000 won't last longer than 20 seconds

Question

My laptop is a Lenovo Sl510. It will ask me for my network key and after inputting it, it will drop after about 20 seconds, and ask for the key again, and continuously do this. I never had any connection problems up until trying 12.04 today.

$ dmesg | grep -i firmware
[    0.169851] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[   18.203838] thinkpad_acpi: asked for hotkey mask 0x078dffff, but firmware forced it to 0x008dffff
[   18.637527] iwlwifi 0000:05:00.0: loaded firmware version 39.31.5.1 build 35138
[   28.202028] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller
02:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller
02:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller
02:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)


$ sudo lshw -class network
PCI (sysfs)  
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 1000
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:26:c7:21:ed:da
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic firmware=39.31.5.1 build 35138 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:49 memory:f2200000-f2201fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: c8:0a:a9:24:c4:56
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f2004000-f2004fff memory:f2000000-f2003fff memory:f2020000-f203ffff

$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

How do I solve this?

Solution 1

I have the same wireless device in a Lenovo x121e laptop and had similar issues.

I had to disable the Wireless 'n' network. That solved the problem for me.

Try that:

echo 'options iwlagn 11n_disable=1' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/iwlagn.conf >/dev/null

Then reboot the computer. Hope this helps... ;)

Source: Linux iwlagn problems

Solution 2

Try the following, worked for me:

in a terminal type

sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

in my case, the power-management was broken. if it worked, just do the following to fix the problem on startup

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

and paste "iwconfig wlan0 power off" into it upon (!) "exit0". Save the file and reboot.

I hope this helps.

Comments

[shane]

I tried doing the sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off command but it just went to the next command line.

[Zong]

thats fine. means, that it is done. can you please post output of "iwconfig"?

[shane]

lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any Mode: Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=14 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off eth0 no wireless extensions

[shane]

I have no idea where to even begin with this, it is way beyond my knowledge of linux. If you can somehow walk me through it, that would help. My biggest problem is I can't connect to any sites on my laptop without having to put in the authentication password over and over so I'm asking here on another computer.

[Jorge Castro]

To even attempt this you'll need to plug in over ethernet. I'll wait a bit to see what other answers pop up and then I'll write something easy for you.

[shane]

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you gave up on this. Screw it, back to 10.04 with me.

[shane]

Ok so I went back to 11.10 and upgraded again today, and it seems that the bug was fixed somehow. I haven't had a problem all day.

[shane]

I was going to try this so I upgraded to 12.04 again and the problem seems to have been fixed with the package. Thank you for your input!