intel 3945 wireless / dell d430

[Catalin David]

Sean Sieger wrote:
> I have trouble with maintaining a stable wireless connection with my
> Dell Latitude D430 and Ubuntu 8.04.  When I wake my laptop by opening
> the lid, I cannot always count on a connection.  Sometimes closing the
> lid again, letting the machine go to sleep and then waking it again
> works---sometimes not.  Every once in a while I have to restart to
> establish a connection.
> 
> I used to have some luck using ifupdown.
> 
> Do you have any advice for when I install version 8.10?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 

My laptop (Dell D520) would have kernel panics every now and then (about 
10 minutes apart) when connected to some wireless networks (the ones on 
the university campus), but no hick-ups with my personal router. Did a 
bit of google-ing and installed 
linux-backports-modules-intrepid(-generic) -- i don't remember for sure 
which of them and it seems to work fine now.

I believe the problem comes from the Intel drivers.

Hope that helps,

Catalin