Realtek RTL8191SE - WiFi keeps dropping every few minutes...

[LittleZeasel]

How do I enable wireless backports? (command?)

While my wireless isn't/wasn't working, I had plugged my computer into wired - I did try to download 11.04 Beta, but all the download Mirrors gave me download speeds between 1 - and 12 B/s ... yes.. Bites / S ... Estimated Download dime 14 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes ... Brilliant ...

So far it drops whenever I try to read my favourite webcomics - they are all hosted on PhpBB Forums, keenspot, smackjeeves ... :/ I guess I'll avoid those for until I have a more stable connection - I am trying my online game tonight and see whether that stays up and stable.

[walt.smith1960]

The simplest way to enable backports is in Synaptic package manager. Put the term "backports" in the search box and you should see entries for modules & wireless among others. I've not had a problem but I've seen a couple reports where enabling backports damaged a functioning system. That's a risk of using software that has not been extensively tested. Having current backups of important things are good for peace of mind. Of course that's true anytime.

[bkratz]

How do I enable wireless backports? (command?)

While my wireless isn't/wasn't working, I had plugged my computer into wired - I did try to download 11.04 Beta, but all the download Mirrors gave me download speeds between 1 - and 12 B/s ... yes.. Bites / S ... Estimated Download dime 14 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes ... Brilliant ...

So far it drops whenever I try to read my favourite webcomics - they are all hosted on PhpBB Forums, keenspot, smackjeeves ... :/ I guess I'll avoid those for until I have a more stable connection - I am trying my online game tonight and see whether that stays up and stable.

Having problems accessing only certain sites is often a MTU size problem. You might want read the answer section on this site and see if it applies to your situation.

http://superuser.com/questions/21326...can-on-windows

[LittleZeasel]

Okay... it wasn't the MTU - that is already set to maximum of 1500.

We did take a different approach and used following command:

tcpdump -s 0 -i wlan0 -w /home/littlezeasel/tcp.dump

In order to get a report of what happened when over the wlan0 to try and find out what might cause the internet to stop running.
Unfortunately, me being an absolute Linux Noob, I can't tell anything from that protocol and the one helping me can't see anything wrong with the log file, apart from recognising WHERE the packages stopped.

I would like to post the relevant part of the protocol, but unfortunately it isn't a text file (it's a file opennable in Wireshark).
The entire thing is 22 MB large and thus not good to be posted - I basically just need the last few lines - anyone know how I can extract those from the file so I can share it, so maybe someone may be able to recognise what is wrong with my stuff?

Or maybe any other ideas?

Thanks a lot for all of your ideas - I am trying everything and am looking forward to a solution. Keep them coming, maybe one thing finally will stick

LZ