[Bug 459732] Re: wireless internet problem on WG111v3 (RTL8187b)

[Vince McIntyre]

I don't see what more I can say but here goes:
 * This machine is a clean install of lucid, I did not dist-upgrade from karmic.
 * Before upgrading, to keep the network up some of the time I had a cron job that did 
     'ifdown wlan1 && sleep 10 && ifup wlan1'
    every 4 minutes (the disassociation occured every 5 minutes).
   I disabled this cron job.
 * I did an aptitude full-upgrade on 2010-05-10 (or 09, not sure), which pulled in the packages noted in #12.
 * I rebooted, with the USB device attached.
 * The system is normally left running with nobody logged in to a gnome session. I did not try logging in to gnome and looking for instability.
 * I don't have wicd or network-manager installed.
    I have an entry for the device in /etc/network/interfaces, so it should be getting configured by 'ifupdown' (see #10).
 * As far as I can tell from 'dbus-monitor --system' dbus is not controlling the device,
   although there is a control file for network interfaces in /etc/dbus-1/. This might change if I start a gnome session
   but I haven't tried this.

Questions for tarung1793:
 * Do you have the linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic package installed.
    I suspect that is where the fix was applied. 

 * When you say 'not always working' what exactly do you mean - for example:
    - "it works every other boot", or
    - "it works one boot in 10", or
    - "it randomly fails and resumes even without rebooting."
 * I think it would help to post some dmesg or syslog excerpts of boots where the device is working and where the device failing (while you are running 2.6.32-22), to help the maintainers understand what is happening differently in the "works" and "not working" cases.
 * What is controlling the network device - wicd, nm, ifupdown?
 * Is your machine running a fresh install of lucid or did you dist-upgrade? It could be there is some cruft left behind by the upgrade.

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wireless internet problem on WG111v3 (RTL8187b)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459732
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