utterly
March 17th, 2009, 07:02 AM
I am using the last three Ubuntu releases on two laptops and 8.10 on a desktop. I have the same proplem on each of them. Wireless networking drops out randomly every 10 sec to 2 - 3 min. This is a problem that is taking up a huge amount of web space and no one seems to have a solution other than a panel launcher to restart the network. This works about 4 times and then the system crashes, requiring a reboot. I wonder why nobody can fix this problem. It makes Ubuntu unusable as a wireless solution.
I am not a computer programmer and I would like to publish some observations that might give someone with the necessary knowledge an idea to create a workaround for this problem.
I recently learned about NetApplet after starting it in a terminal, every few seconds it reports:
Got ssid 0.940407 1
Got ssid 0.922549 1
Got ssid 0.943245 1
Got ssid 0.928666 1
Got ssid 0.940407 1
When the connection drops out, this changes to:
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Clicking on the NetApplet icon and selecting wireless: wlan0 (active) seems to shortly reconnect the network. This is much more efficient and does not seem to be limited in the number of times it is used.
Maybe,when the connection dies, something could be done to re-establish it.
I am not a computer programmer and I would like to publish some observations that might give someone with the necessary knowledge an idea to create a workaround for this problem.
I recently learned about NetApplet after starting it in a terminal, every few seconds it reports:
Got ssid 0.940407 1
Got ssid 0.922549 1
Got ssid 0.943245 1
Got ssid 0.928666 1
Got ssid 0.940407 1
When the connection drops out, this changes to:
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Got ssid 0.000000 1
Clicking on the NetApplet icon and selecting wireless: wlan0 (active) seems to shortly reconnect the network. This is much more efficient and does not seem to be limited in the number of times it is used.
Maybe,when the connection dies, something could be done to re-establish it.