Hi there!

When I start Fedora 8, the system connects to my WiFi network with NetworkManager, but after ~5 minutes it loses connection and is not able to reconnect. The time of the loss looks like fixed, but I can niot prove it at the moment.

Trying to run wpa_supplicant manually fails complaining about dbus not available. I've updated wpa_supplicant after the installation, did not help, I'm using v0.5.7 now.

Also, when this problem occures, I can not reboot/shutdown my system properly: the shutdown process freezes at the line "Unloading ip6vtables"

I do not use any password in my WiFi, just the MAC address verification.

So, in wpa_supplicant log I have nothing but this:

Trying to associate with 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4 (SSID='fnet' freq=2412 MHz)
Associated with 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1b:fc:9d:2d:b4 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]
CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys

Apart from nm-applet I also have the KDE wiriless network status; it reports that my WiFi network is available with good signal etc.; cannot reconnect anyway.

The hardware is the following:
m\b: asus p5k-e wifi ap, wifi card is onboard
router: asus wl500-g, works fine with wired LAN. After the failed WiFi I connect the router and my machine with an Ethernet cable, eth0 runs smoothly. The router is a DHCP-server.

I have also tried testing WiFi under WinXP on the same machine, got no problem with connection losses.

Any ideas? I'd be grateful for any help.

Check in the power config to make sure that Wifi is not switched off after a certain amount of idle time. Another thing to test is to run a constant ping to the router and see if it stays up if it's constantly in use.

The power is not a problem - the network is still seen, and I've worked under WinXP for a while. I got no problems then.

While pinging the router I got the icmp message from my host: 'Destination host is unreachable'. Can my desktop somehow lose the default routing path, and how?