[Bug 569841] Re: wireless network has problem connecting and sometimes disconnect

[Yves Dorfsman]

more progress... wicd was competing with network-manager!

I do feel like an idiot about this, but here we go:
Way back in May, when we suspected network-manager was the issue, somebody suggested to use "wicd" instead. This did not help, and we quickly came to the conclusion that the issue was the intel driver.

One of the issue I have had, is that it would take 5 or 10 minutes
before getting a connection, get a connection, and within 10 seconds
loose that connection, and it would do that again and again. Eventually,
it would connect and stay connected. Tonight, my disk kept spinning and
stopping while I was just reading a long email, wondering what was going
on, I ran top, and found "wicd" running (don't think that's what made
the disk spin up, but that's a different story). I removed wicd, and
tried suspend/resume cycles several times, and it now takes only 5 to 10
minutes to connect, once it connects, it does not loose that connection
again. I am now able to connect with 2.6.35, in less than 10 minutes,
(and if not, rebooting fixes it). And I have done more testing with
2.6.35, it does not fail under load.

To check:
dpkg -l wicd-daemon

If it lists it with "ii" at the front, it means it is installed. then:

dpkg -r wicd-daemon wicd-gtk


Also, follow the link from Andreas and Martin to download 2.6.35, installing it is as simple as "dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.35*", 2.6.35 does NOT fail under load. It would be nice if Intel fixed that bug in 2.6.32, 33, and 34, but I have a feeling it is not going to happen.

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wireless network has problem connecting and sometimes disconnect
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569841
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