[Bug 567961] Re: Wireless disconnects in Lucid

[Mouxbar]

My Acer Aspire netbook has suffered with this problem and after many
days of searching this seems to have sorted me.

I'm a linux dunce so please interpret around what I have gleaned as
sceptically as you need to!

Suffice to say there are numerous forum threads and bug reports along
these lines for 10.04 and wireless disconnects. My guess is that certain
types of wireless cards / chipsets are affected by this. The most common
cause of the fault seems to be usage of larger than normal surfing ie.
YouTube, BBC iPlayer or even a system update! Wireless will then go down
for a few minutes (for some) or require a reboot or Network Manager
fiddle to get going again. The fault cannot be replicated at will but
will be frequent enough to demonstrate within 10 minutes or so.

Dave Bouchers post above has nailed my problem. Unfortunately I have no
idea what this installation does! At a guess, a set of generic wireless
drivers... (you can stop laughing now).

I've joined just to let the community know that this has worked for me.
As there are numerous threads and bugs along the same lines I'll leave
it to those who know what they are doing to take whatever action they
need.

I'll keep an eye on this thread for a while anyway if anyone needs
further  information. Please keep in mind I'm utterly useless at
anything that isn't mouse driven so any terminal type requests need to
be written for the simple minded...

And my big thanks to Dave !

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Wireless disconnects in Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567961
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