Comment 41 for bug 331952

Michael,

I'm another user who has this problem.

My hardware: HP 2133

When I first installed 8.04 I could NEVER get wifi to work.

After I upgraded to 8.10, wifi was now working PROVIDED I installed the recommended proprietary driver: Broadcom STA Wireless Driver.

Then I upgraded to 9.04 by doing a FRESH INSTALL with the recommended Broadcom STA driver, stock standard 9.04 installation, but now wireless crashes randomly as described by all the above.

Wireless was working fine on 8.10 now under 9.04 it doesn't work properly.
It seems to me, as some have reported above, that it disconnects when I leave the machine. Even if I leave Evolution email running which connects to the mail server on the Net once every minute, wifi still disconnects. When I am at the machine and doing things like browsing the net, it seems to stay up most, if not all, of the time.

I think this is of GRAVE CONCERN. This bug report was raised as early as 2009-02-20 by Ben McCann, and now we have May 4 and the problem still exists.

I have noticed there are literally 100s of bug reports with a similar theme for all kinds of hardware, not just the HP 2133.

This leads me to conclude there is a MAJOR PROBLEM with wifi under 9.04!!!

How can we get the developers to give this a high priority?
The ideal solution would be that the problem gets found very quickly and fixed and updated software (whether kernel or something else) is made available via synaptic or apt-get, etc.

Those of us who have been using Ubuntu for some time and like it will probably do what you wrote: "should I just give up and learn to live with it?".
BUT what about new users, people who switch to Ubuntu from MS or just try it out?
If they keep having this problem, then they will NOT be impressed and probably not stay with Ubuntu, but rather speak negatively about it.

Cheers from Brisbane, Australia

Ole