problems with wireless

[Colin Law]

On 23 October 2014 13:32, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 23 October 2014 13:19, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >  My wireless connection works flawless for some time and then I am
>> > unable
>> > to get anywhere on the internet.
>>
>> What message do you see in the browser, when you cannot access the
>> internet of course.
>>
>> What happens if, in a terminal you
>> ping www.google.com
>>
>> If you run dmesg when the connection is failing do you see anything
>> obvious added to dmesg at that time?
>>
>> Anything in /var/log/syslog that looks suspicious?
>>
>> Which version of Ubuntu are you using?
>>
>> >
>> > If I disable wireless connections in network manager, all is well at
>> > least
>> > for some time.
>>
>> I don't understand how it is better with wifi disabled.  I would not
>> have expected it to work at all.
>>
>> Are you able to run with a wired connection to see whether the problem
>> exhibits itself there also?
>>

> I meant to say I disable then reenable the wifi, then it works better most
> of the time.
>
> Now that I have the ethernet connection working I can run over and plug in
> when the problem recurs.  Will post.

Do the pings and dmesg and so on while still on wireless.

On the wired connection I meant to run with that for a while and see
if it runs ok.  You have not said which version of Ubuntu.

Colin