<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Colin for your thoughts. It seems to have started working properly now, but if it starts playing up again your suggestions will be my first go-to. Hope that's OK.<br><br>Regards,<br><br></div>
Hugh<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 August 2013 09:53, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com" target="_blank">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 10 August 2013 01:22, Hugh Mayfield <<a href="mailto:hugh.mayfield@gmail.com">hugh.mayfield@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> I'm fairly new to this group - hi to all! I haven't been to a meeting yet<br>
> (I want to but money is an issue, I'm very poor and buying drinks at pub<br>
> prices is usually a problem). I do occasionally hang around on the IRC<br>
> channel.<br>
><br>
> I wonder if people can help with a little problem I'm having with my new USB<br>
> wifi adaptor. It's a Netgear WNA3100M. I connected it to a spare USB port<br>
> and it just worked under Ubuntu 12.04. However, after about 5-10 minutes of<br>
> happy Internet use, the wifi connection stops working. The connection<br>
> utility repeatedly asks for confirmation of the wifi network password, and<br>
> then after 3 or 4 goes it says "wireless network now disconnected." A<br>
> reboot fixes the problem.<br>
><br>
> Ubuntu reports that the driver in use is rtl8192cu.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Usually such problems are hardware related in some way.<br>
Check /var/log/syslog and dmesg when it fails to see if there is<br>
anything of interest there.<br>
Is the PC close to the wifi base station? Have you got any other wifi<br>
devices connected? Ideally it would be good to try another adaptor<br>
but if you have not got one then that is obviously a problem. I<br>
presume that the fact that you say it worked ok under Ubuntu 12.04<br>
means that you have upgraded or changed to a different distribution.<br>
If so did the problem start happening /immediately/ that you upgraded?<br>
Even if it did then it is still possible that it is just coincidence.<br>
The trickiest problems to solve are often those where evidence<br>
suggests the fault lies in one direction, but either there are two<br>
issues or it is just coincidence.<br>
<br>
Colin<br>
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