Starling WifFi goes out

[Laramie Jeude]

My Starling is about two months old and has always had a problem with wifi. It can sense wifi and appears to be connected, but drops a strong signal after a few minutes. I know the signal is strong because I can access it from other laptops, but the Starling is about to become my only one, so I hope we can fix it!
The system model is star4 and I'm not exactly sure what version I'm running.

[Richard Rossel (rrossel)]

I have the same problem with my Starling NetBook that I bought 2 weeks ago.
Every 20 minutes, the wifi seems not connected, even when the wifi icon show connected with
high signal, but I cant open any web site, or using skype or pidgin. I try doing ping to a server but
i don't get response. Quick Solution: Reconnect the wifi network.

[Laramie Jeude (ljeude)]

I'm emailing a guy from System 76. I'll let you know if he tells me anything that solves it. I almost feel like it's a hardware problem; maybe yours and mine just have bad wifi receptors?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> on behalf of Richard Rossel
Sent: Wed 3/2/2011 10:01 AM
To: Jeude, Laramie Rachel August
Subject: [Bug 724464] Re: Starling WifFi goes out

I have the same problem with my Starling NetBook that I bought 2 weeks ago.
Every 20 minutes, the wifi seems not connected, even when the wifi icon show connected with
high signal, but I cant open any web site, or using skype or pidgin. I try doing ping to a server but
i don't get response. Quick Solution: Reconnect the wifi network.

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Title:
  Starling WifFi goes out

Status in System76:
  New

Bug description:
  My Starling is about two months old and has always had a problem with wifi. It can sense wifi and appears to be connected, but drops a strong signal after a few minutes. I know the signal is strong because I can access it from other laptops, but the Starling is about to become my only one, so I hope we can fix it!
  The system model is star4 and I'm not exactly sure what version I'm running.

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[teaforthecat (teaforthecat)]

I am having a similar issue with a new(Spring '11) Lemur. I seems like a memory leak? I works for a few minutes and then goes out. Then it will appear to be connected, but won't resolve an address from dhcp. I have to restart the whole system to get it back.

[Laramie Jeude (ljeude)]

Thanks :) My Starling was stolen a little after I posted the comment, but I will save this in case I have trouble with my future Starling!

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> on behalf of teaforthecat
Sent: Thu 5/5/2011 10:44 AM
To: Jeude, Laramie Rachel August
Subject: [Bug 724464] Re: Starling WifFi goes out

I am having a similar issue with a new(Spring '11) Lemur. I seems like a
memory leak? I works for a few minutes and then goes out. Then it will
appear to be connected, but won't resolve an address from dhcp. I have
to restart the whole system to get it back.

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Title:
  Starling WifFi goes out

Status in System76:
  New

Bug description:
  My Starling is about two months old and has always had a problem with wifi. It can sense wifi and appears to be connected, but drops a strong signal after a few minutes. I know the signal is strong because I can access it from other laptops, but the Starling is about to become my only one, so I hope we can fix it!
  The system model is star4 and I'm not exactly sure what version I'm running.

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[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Any progress on this issue? I have a star5 running 11.04 and the wifi drops several times per hour.

[Anthony Hook (anthonyhook)]

Can the people having this issue please attach the following from a terminal:
lsb_release -a
uname -r

and from logs:
dmesg > dmesg.log (attach the dmesg to the report)
lspci -vvnn > lspci.log (attach the lspci to the report)

This will help get people more information about what's going on.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

2.6.38-11-generic

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Added requested logs.

The router is an apple airport extreme. No other wifi devices are having this issue.

[Thomas Aaron (tom-system76)]

I see JC Hulce's answer ... that the problem only occurs on his Airport.

Can the rest of you confirm whether the problem occurs on one particular router or multiple routers?

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Actually, I have had this issue when using other hotspots (at hotels, etc). What I was trying to say was that no other device ever connected to the Airport has ever had issues

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Laramie Jeude, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/724464/comments/4 regarding you no longer have the hardware. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.