Upgrade or ndiswrapper?

[Quorlia]

Hi,

I have been having lots of problems with my wireless connection. Either it is slow or it won't persist for more than 30 seconds. I am using the ath5k driver. I have tried various fixes. Is upgrading to the latest LTS version or trying to use ndiswrapper more likely to succeed? I'm on Version 11 LTS currently.

[ajgreeny]

There is no version 11 LTS, so if you're on 11.04 you have al;ready lost support; if you are on 11.10, you will only get support for another 4 months.

If I were you I would move to 12.04. I have no idea if that will solve your wireless problem, but you will need to upgrade the distro soon, so why not now.

You can use the gnome-panel fallback classic desktop if you want to very easily. See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370 if that is your choice.