[SWLUG] Problem with USB wifi adaptor

[Hugh Mayfield]

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.

Regards,

Hugh


On 10 August 2013 09:53, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 10 August 2013 01:22, Hugh Mayfield <hugh.mayfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm fairly new to this group - hi to all!  I haven't been to a meeting
> yet
> > (I want to but money is an issue, I'm very poor and buying drinks at pub
> > prices is usually a problem).  I do occasionally hang around on the IRC
> > channel.
> >
> > I wonder if people can help with a little problem I'm having with my new
> USB
> > wifi adaptor.  It's a Netgear WNA3100M.  I connected it to a spare USB
> port
> > and it just worked under Ubuntu 12.04.  However, after about 5-10
> minutes of
> > happy Internet use, the wifi connection stops working.  The connection
> > utility repeatedly asks for confirmation of the wifi network password,
> and
> > then after 3 or 4 goes it says "wireless network now disconnected."  A
> > reboot fixes the problem.
> >
> > Ubuntu reports that the driver in use is rtl8192cu.
>
> Usually such problems are hardware related in some way.
> Check /var/log/syslog and dmesg when it fails to see if there is
> anything of interest there.
> Is the PC close to the wifi base station?  Have you got any other wifi
> devices connected?  Ideally it would be good to try another adaptor
> but if you have not got one then that is obviously a problem.  I
> presume that the fact that you say it worked ok under Ubuntu 12.04
> means that you have upgraded or changed to a different distribution.
> If so did the problem start happening /immediately/ that you upgraded?
>  Even if it did then it is still possible that it is just coincidence.
>  The trickiest problems to solve are often those where evidence
> suggests the fault lies in one direction, but either there are two
> issues or it is just coincidence.
>
> Colin
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