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casawyer
June 24th, 2007, 01:02 PM
I have DSL with wireless, and have wireless in my computer, but having problems with ubuntu keeping connections with it. When I first bring up firefox after booting up, I get a connection, but when I try to access a different site, or try to post to a site like this one, I loss my connection.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Charles
mig5
June 24th, 2007, 01:12 PM
Is the wireless signal just really weak and so the connection is lost every so often? Do you have the same problem on other operating systems (other linuxes, windows, etc).
If it is the signal try adjusting the physical position of your wireless card and reciever for a better connection (ie: put them closer together).
bukwirm
June 24th, 2007, 01:25 PM
What wireless adapter do you have?
type "lshw -C network" and look though the output if you don't know.
casawyer
June 24th, 2007, 10:00 PM
Is the wireless signal just really weak and so the connection is lost every so often? Do you have the same problem on other operating systems (other linuxes, windows, etc).
If it is the signal try adjusting the physical position of your wireless card and reciever for a better connection (ie: put them closer together).

The wireless is a strong signal. I have no problem with it when I run my windows xp.

It works when I first bring up the Foxfire browser on ubuntu but when I click to go to another site or link, I loss my wireless altogether. Not sure why. I have to reboot to get it back and then it does the samething all over. Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Charles
casawyer
June 24th, 2007, 10:02 PM
What wireless adapter do you have?
type "lshw -C network" and look though the output if you don't know.

NB 802.11g Wireless LAN USB Adapter
casawyer
June 25th, 2007, 12:13 AM
NB 802.11g Wireless LAN USB Adapter

It's funny that this evening it is working fine. I have not been kicked off or lost the wireless as yet, and been on all sorts of area's.

Charles
mig5
June 25th, 2007, 08:33 AM
Is there an IP address conflict on your network? That could be causing you to lose the connection. Check whether the computers on your network are using fixed IP addresses or DHCP. If there are some fixed and some DHCP then you need to make sure the fixed ones are high numbers, eg: 192.168.1.200 , so that the DHCP doesn't assign the same IP as Ubuntu is using to another PC. Or maybe you are using all fixed IPs and two of them are the same?