My wireless doesn't work sometimes.
Sometimes it works great.
Before I go further into diagnosing, I
Sometimes my wireless adaptor does
not broadcast packets.
I wanted to shut down IPv6 because I
suspect it may be causing a conflict.
So I ran the following command:

 sudo ifconfig inet6 eth0 down

This is the output of the command:

eth0: Unknown host

what am I doing wrong.
or is there a config file that I need to edit?

Here are my ifconfig outputs:
(I I pinged it count=10 between ifconfigs)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:44:9b:b3:bc
          inet addr:10.167.102.104  Bcast:10.167.103.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:44ff:fe9b:b3bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:19710 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1829455 (1.8 MB)  TX bytes:12200 (12.2 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:44:9b:b3:bc
          inet addr:10.167.102.104  Bcast:10.167.103.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:44ff:fe9b:b3bc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:25962 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2385423 (2.3 MB)  TX bytes:13099 (13.0 KB)
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