randomly disconnected with wireless ubuntu
 

Alright, I've become incredibly desperate. I've looked around alot and, this problem is serious enough that I'm about ready to go back to windows. I've been eye-ing my disk. The problem you ask?

Anytime the network load gets above a few kb/s, it crashes. I have to ifdown/ifup it in order to HOPEFULLY get it working again. I've tried EVERYTHING:
Removing nm-applet
Removing firestarter
Turing off IPV6
Trying Wicd
Asking at the offical ubuntu forums

I feel my problem there was I assumed too much and they didn't want to look at the thread because of the title, so I'll give just a little information. My brand is F5D6050, it runs on the at_76 drivers. It will randomly cut out, and a higher load seems to crash it (For instance, I can PARTIALLY keep it if I'm running JUST MSN on pidgin, but if I try to run pidgin and Firefox at the same time, it crashes.) My Ubuntu version is Feisty Fawn, and heres the information obtained with uname -a

Linux PenPen 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Here's my iwconfig:


wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO_E25D53" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point:00:11:50:E2:5D:53
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry limit:8 RTS thr=1536 B Fragment thr=1536 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=57/100 Signal level=57/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0



ifconfig:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:BD:64:1A:A6
inet addr:192.168.2.9 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18539 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21371637 (20.3 MiB) TX bytes:1907772 (1.8 MiB)

I'm REALLY desperate to get this fix, if anyone has any questions, or advice, please help.

Is it possible that your router is a bit outdated? You could look for any firmware updates for your router...? Just a thought. Otherwise, I don't have any ideas but wireless adapters are very cheap. From what I saw on the net, that one seems to be plagues with problems. Whether or not those problems have been sorted out, I don't know.

I've been thinking that, but the problem is, I have no money to buy a wireless adapater. The computer itself is five or six years old. I've kept it going by substituting various parts from various computer. A Frankenstein if you will. I do appreciate the reply though.