Bug 279141

Summary: Wireless Internet quits working sporatically
Product: [Unmaintained] Network Management Reporter: James R McKenzie <jimmckenzie>
Component: WirelessAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: normal CC: lamarque
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description James R McKenzie 2011-08-02 09:22:10 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

I use Super OS 11.04 with Kubuntu (Plasma) as my Desktop. In the last few days I have noticed that my Wireless Internet quits working after about 2 days and I have to reboot in order to start it back up. It only seems to happen in KDE and not Gnome. I'm not interested in Unity so there is no info about it's sessions. I don't really know what to tell you other than after a day or so the Wireless connection stops. I don't know enough yet on how to produce diagnostic logs or data dumps on this or any other problem. I'm using Super OS because I'm tired of Window$. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Simply running the computer for more than 18 hours.

Actual Results:  
nothing unique.

Expected Results:  
No Internet connection. I cannot run an actual wired connection because my computer is too far away for the router. Over 200 Feet, I cannot afford a cable that long it would be a custom made cable and I can't afford it. 

That's why I use wireless.

64 Bit Computer & OS

Dual Boot with Win 7

AMD Phenom 9150e Quad Core Processor

8GB RAM

Computer is 2.5 years old.

If you need additional info (I assume you will) please send instructions on what to do and hoe to do it (How do I create a data dump) and whom to send it to.

Any / All help will be appreciated.

Thank You

James R McKenzie
Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-08-03 01:37:02 UTC 
After the connection is established Plasma NM does not take any action without user intervention. Actually is NM daemon that talks to the wireless card's driver and wpa_supplicant. NM also turns the card on, scans for access points, establishes the connection, and calls the dhcp client. NM's clients, such as Plasma NM, only send actions to the NM daemon and read the responses. Your problem is probably in the wireless card's driver or in your access point, there is no sense this problem only happens with Plasma NM.

If it is a driver problem the "dmesg" command will show some messages. You can also look at the NM's log file (/var/log/daemong.log or /var/log/messages) for any error messages.