I see that McAfee is unactivated. Only one option is available — ACTIVATE. But you can’t because it’s not online.

Since I suspect McAfee has blocked internet access, I look everywhere for a place to change it. But it can’t be found. It’s all greyed.

So I uninstall McAfee and the lappy gets online right away.

Bye-bye McAfee, hello MS Security Essentials.

This never happened on my Linux machine or on any of the PCs we have.

Due to a power outage, my router needed a hard reset, so I had to set everything back to the DD-WRT factory defaults. Upon doing so, I immediately noted that the Android wifi problems were gone. Pages loaded very quickly.

The a few days later I realized that, I had forgotten to put the OpenDNS servers in the router.  So I put them in and went to bed. For the next two days, I noted the timeouts occurring with the droid again, so today I removed the OpenDNS server specs and the phone  is loading everything without pause.

Any thoughts on why this would happen. I love OpenDNS, but can’t use it if it’s going to do this to my droid.

~Steve

UPDATE: This turned out to be a problem with Dolphin web browser. It appears they have it resolved.

To get past this, try the following:

1. Right-click on your Network Manager applet in the upper right corner and select “Edit Connections”.
2. Click on the Wireless Tab, select your wireless network, and click “Edit”.
3. At the bottom on the following window put a check in the “Available to all users” box.
4. Close all windows and reboot.

This makes the wireless available without entering the keyring password.

-Steve

1. Make sure you have Samba installed.
2. Create a folder on your linux machine called something like /mnt/stufftosync.  This folder will represent your remote folder of files.
3. In the terminal type,

“mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=password //machinename/sharename /mnt/smbshare” without the quotes, where name is your username, password is your password, and smbshare is your stufftosync. You can pick whatever name you want for stufftosync, provided it corresponds with the folder you created in the /mnt folder.

Perform your sync, using Unison using the location of the files on your Linux machine as the first folder and using /mnt/smbshare, where smbshare is your stufftosync, as the second.

Worked like a charm.

Looks like you have to do type the mount command each time you boot.

The only fix was to turn off the wireless card in the laptop and turn it back on. It didn’t just happen to my Inspiron. It happened to my wife’s Acer.

Reading around on the net, I found that some people blamed the problem on interference on channel 6 from other wireless networks. Some suggested changing to channel 11. Nope. No better.

But then I changed to channel 1. Ha! I’ve been connected for about nine hours without being dropped once. Looks like that fixed it.

What’s puzzling is why my Inspiron, when dropped from the network, couldn’t find any of the other networks until the wireless card was restarted.