On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:09:25 -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Camaleón <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You mean you're still using ipv4 with no ipv6 support from the OS at >> all? > > I am using an up-to-date install of Squeeze. There were several network > > related updates when IPv6 was supposed to be activated. So I presume > > this was an activation for Debian.
The default Debian installation should enable ipv6 but if you manually turned it off and did an upgrade instead a clean install, this setting could have been honored so better check if ipv6 is on or off. > Since then, certain wireless APs have not worked properly. "Certain"? You mean that for some worked and others not? It can be then a corner issue with those specific access points :-? > It claims to connect and get an IP address, but there is almost no > actual traffic. It can take 5 or 10 minutes to get a simple page with > mostly text and very few graphics. You can turn off ipv6 from the browser (eg.g, Icewasel/Firefox) and then retry to see if you get any difference. > Yet, these same IPs are as fast as ever when you connect with a Windows > machine. Which leads me to suspect that Windows automatically detects > what the AP is using and adjusts, while Linux does not. I don't have enough information to reach such a conclusion, but this can be easily tested by disabling ipv6 completely from your linux box and check for the results. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
