[ale] Unreliable wireless connection

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Wed August 4 2010, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I've converted a friend to Linux by installing ubuntu 10.04. ?There are
> two problems. ?The first is that the wireless connection only works part
> of the time. ?Mostly only when I'm there. ?The symptoms are that it is
> pretty much dead and the log says "... DISABLED" ?after a bit sometimes
> it comes back up and says ? "... ENABLED". ?Other times it doesn't. ?
> When it's up the signal is near 100 percent. ?The system is a Compaq
> laptop with the Broadcom wireless board, using the b43 driver. ?I am
> fortunate to have an almost identical laptop that works every time so I
> know it's not the WAP. ?I'm at a loss as to how to debug this beast. ?
> Any suggestions would be helpful.

nothing of interest in /var/log ??
just for giggles, you might try installing wicd.. I had success with that on 
my laptop, when network manager didn't want to play nice..

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