I will try to update the bios but it will take a few days. Dell's bios updater says it works with dos and windows but when I tried it last night I found out it does not run on dos so I will have to reinstalled Windows again to do the update. (SIGH!) I attempted to do it through WINE and a few other ways I found online but I think using windows is the most reliable.
I'm also going to switch my network ecryption to WEP and see if things improve. I recently bought a newer router and started to use WPA2. I dont remember if I was ok using just WEP. I will report my findings when I can on this. I went to the page on comment 5 and first tried the bcmwl-kernel-source and that did not work. When I installed that driver I was not able to find the wireless in the Network listing. When I tried the broadcom-sta driver the wireless did not work either but I can't remember exactly what the result was. After that I went to the b43 page and followed the directions for b43-fwcutter driver. After I installed that I unloaded the drivers using sudo modprobe -r b43 bcma sudo modprobe -r brcmsmac bcma sudo modprobe -r wl Then I restarted each one using. sudo modprobe b43 sudo modprobe brcmsmac sudo modprobe wl Using that method I found that b43 made things work again. I then blacklisted the other two drivers and for the most part things have improved. As for what I driver I was using before I'm pretty sure I was using b43 but I'm really new at Ubuntu and I'm not sure if I installed all the drivers properly or even how I got the wireless working in the first place, there was a lot of trial and error when I first installed ubuntu on this laptop. It was running fine for about 3-4 months and I just started to notice this problem in mid November. Let me test with WEP and if that doesn't do it I'll install windows again and update the bios. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093542 Title: 4e4:4311 Inconsistent wireless connection on a Dell Vostro 1000 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1093542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
