In case this information might help, I was getting the dropout problem with a WGA111v3 USB key and a Billion 7404VGOM WLAN router (with both the standard and patched rtl8187 modules). I tried blacklisting rtl8187 and using ndiswrapper/XP drivers instead, and this combination was also dropping out - even more frequently than it was the rtl8187 module.
Moreover, when the WGA111v3 dropped out, my laptop with an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN WLAN (normally rock solid) was also kicked off. So I upgraded the firmware on the WLAN router and this fixed both connections. Before the router firmware upgrade, the WGA111v3 combination was working fine on another laptop running Vista, just not on either Ubuntu computers. So it seems that either the Vista drivers worked better than the XP drivers or there's something low level in the Linux kernel that was causing the problem with this particular combination of the old WLAN router firmware and the WGA111v3. I was running Intrepid on both Linux PCs. I haven't had a chance yet to re-test the rtl8187 module to see if the new router firmware works better with it. -- rtl8187 drops connection https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182473 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
