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Does this help any?

Odd - the whole desktop locks up or just the keyboard refuses to work?

Glad it's sorted :)

If you run the wireless script found in the link below and choose continual wireless connectivity checking, when the connection drops it will return all relevant info and log details which might...

Are you running through a proxy and are you doing sudo apt-get or installing through synaptic/additional drivers?

I stand corrected :)

Excellent - Glad it's sorted :)

It could be that the interfaces file was borked. If you come accross the same probelm again try removing the interfaces file /etc/network/interface

wow - genious stuff

How canonical haven't head hunted you I have no idead ;)

Try
killall nm-applet to stop Network manager.

The wireless script in the link below will also be helpful. If it doesn't fix the problem it will output all the necessary information for people...

The wireless script (link below) might help. It will at least return relevant information for tourbleshooting :)

Excellent

Hi and welcome

It would also be useful to see the output of lspci or to save time posting results to commands you could run the wireless script by downloading it from the link below, running it...

Hi and welcome

This is a good place to look for compatible hardware

Glad you sorted it vagrale13. Thanks for posting a link to the solution that worked for you. Most helpful :-)

Hope the script came in useful. Not that you need it at the moment but version 2.0 is...

if you post the results.txt generated by the wireless script (link below) people will be able to assist :-)

you could try using the continuous connectivity checking function of the wireless script. Then when the connection drops it will read the relevant logs and maybe point to the issue

Atheros chipsets are usually not a problem

I know what you mean, but that's a bit harsh...but I know what you mean ;)

Did you manage to fix it vagrale13? If you did let us know how :-)

eaten - Did you try uninstalling and re-installing the driver as per post #10?

A shame to see the old broadcom issues are still around...even in 11.04.

anyway...if you can post the wireless-results.txt generated by downloading and running the script - link below- then then...

hype on a grand scale

not in my experience - usually the apps stay, but maybe I did it wrong :?

+1

Version: 1.1 (Development)
Thu Apr 28 09:28:43 BST 2011

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Running networking services...

ok...can you still do the command :-)