Comment 7 for bug 567961

My Acer Aspire netbook has suffered with this problem and after many days of searching this seems to have sorted me.

I'm a linux dunce so please interpret around what I have gleaned as sceptically as you need to!

Suffice to say there are numerous forum threads and bug reports along these lines for 10.04 and wireless disconnects. My guess is that certain types of wireless cards / chipsets are affected by this. The most common cause of the fault seems to be usage of larger than normal surfing ie. YouTube, BBC iPlayer or even a system update! Wireless will then go down for a few minutes (for some) or require a reboot or Network Manager fiddle to get going again. The fault cannot be replicated at will but will be frequent enough to demonstrate within 10 minutes or so.

Dave Bouchers post above has nailed my problem. Unfortunately I have no idea what this installation does! At a guess, a set of generic wireless drivers... (you can stop laughing now).

I've joined just to let the community know that this has worked for me. As there are numerous threads and bugs along the same lines I'll leave it to those who know what they are doing to take whatever action they need.

I'll keep an eye on this thread for a while anyway if anyone needs further information. Please keep in mind I'm utterly useless at anything that isn't mouse driven so any terminal type requests need to be written for the simple minded...

And my big thanks to Dave !