WiFi problems...

[Raquel]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:32:09 -0500
Roy Smith <rasmith1959 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi!  I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm having problems with my WiFi adapter.
> It's a Belkin F5D7050 Wireless G USB adapter.  The problem is that
> it works for just a few minutes, then quits.  At that point I
> either have to reboot, or unplug the adapter and plug it back in
> again to get it to work for a few more minutes.  Gets frustrating
> when that happens. Any suggestions on what I need to do to get this
> thing working reliably?  Please keep in mind that you're dealing
> with a complete newbie to Linux, but I have lots of experience with
> Windows...
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> Roy Smith

I have two things to check, because I just went through getting my
laptop setup with wifi.

The first thing that I had to fix was the firewall.  My firewall was
not letting any traffic through and so the connection was timing out.

The next thing to do is to install WICD.  Installing WICD got rid of
all my network problems.  Installing WICD will remove network-manager
for you.  The directions for installing WICD can be found on their
web site:  www.wicd.net

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