Wireless refuses to reconnect, ubuntu says serious kernel error

[Alex Conrey]

Binary package hint: firefox

As the title states, I am able to connect to my Wireless network, but it only stays connected for a few minutes. When it disconnects, ubuntu occasionally alerts me that there is a serious kernel problem/error. I attempt to report it, but lo-and-behold, I have no internet to report it! I am running Ubuntu lucid (development branch). As this 'seems' to be a kernel error and not a network-manager problem, there's no package version. The kernel I am using, however, is 2.6.32-19-generic. I expected to surf the internet and review the new 10.04, but I cannot connect for more than 5 minutes at most (if I'm lucky!). And I know that it is not an adapter issue as I have an identical one working on an arch linux machine. I have also swapped the adapters between the machines, and the adapter on the ubuntu machine now works fine.

[Alex Conrey (ajwak95)]

And it is not a firefox problem, as I cannot do 'ping -c 3 google.com' but I can 'ping -c 3 192.168.1.1' for the router (on occasion)

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Could you please run the command "apport-collect 556027", This will upload your kernel log and other useful information about your problem. Thank you!

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

Sorry i did not see your attached file, I think this includes everything needed. So never mind on the apport-collect.

[Alex Conrey (ajwak95)]

ok, any info on the problem? I installed ubuntu on the other computer and it is working fine, only 2 days old however

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Alex,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 556027

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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