Could be deteriorating hardware. Try a USB wireless dongle and disable the built-in wireless. See if the exact same issues persist with the new hardware (everything else is the same).
A On Fri, February 20, 2009 11:09, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems > getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 with > gnome, network manager 0.6.6. Only changes have been any updates via > apt-get update/upgrade. Connections are to 2 separate wrt54gl routers > (home, work), set up essentially the same. I know they function OK > based on other laptops connecting without issue. > > Going back a month, connections would "just work" on logging on to the > gnome desktop. Then I would occasionally experience a problem connecting, > and manually intervene via network manager. 2 weeks or so ago I began to > be prompted for the passphrase and could then successfully connect. Now I > am often unable to connect at all, or can connect after 2 or sometimes 3 > or 4 times entering the passphrase. Sometimes I'm having to resort to an > ethernet cable :-( > > Turning on and off the wireless switch on the laptop, or disabling then > re-enabling wireless via network manager, or a reboot, or resetting the > router, have all been tried in an attempt to resolve with any consistency, > but generally it's random if it is successful. Removing and recreating > the passphrase entry in the "Passwords and Encryption Keys" tool (where > the password is usually shown in what appears to be a hex format) hasn't > helped. > > I'm at a loss to explain what I am describing, so seeking any > suggestions on how to resolve this or where to look. > > Cheers, > Roger > > > >
