[ubuntu-uk] Problems with broadband

[Alan Pope]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0000, Andrew Jenkins wrote:
> My wife has a Toshiba laptop running Vista (I was against it, but she
> doesn't listen to me).  Every now and then the internal wireless
> adapter just goes off.  Naturally, in true Windows fashion the 'fix'
> is to simply reboot it.  This is what I believe is called a 'feature'.
> 

My father in law had exactly the same problem with an Acer laptop until I 
told him to remove the stupid Acer "helper" application. It was that which 
was causing the drop outs. Now he uses the built in vista wifi stuff and it 
works.

Cheers,
Al.