[ale] Unreliable wireless connection

[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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