[aklug] Re: Acer Aspire One D250 Wireless problems[solved]

On Monday 01 December 2014 13:03:43 you wrote:
> * Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> [141125 15:20]:
> > I've got a "rescue netbook" here bequeathed by one of my 'kids' for
> > my wife's use when she travels.
> >
> > When my daughter had it she used windows 7 and told me that the
> > wireless was entirely reliable.
> >
> > I put lubunt 41.04 on it and had problems with the wireless
> > connection being unreliable - one time I might have a wireless
> > connection and see wlan0 in ifconfig and the next it would be gone,
> > wlan0 would be gone from ifconfig.
> >
> > In such a case I would plug in ethernet, get a connection and then
> > when I rebooted the netbook, wlan0 would be visible and so would
> > wireless connections.
>
> <...>
> I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving. When I added
> 'solved' to the subject line, it is in the spirit of "A good
> retreat beats a bad stand".
>
> After modifying the blacklist - with
> the hope of reducing conflicts, I found that I was living with the
> following :
>
> Booting from a cold start (I.E. netbook has been turned off for
> some time), wlan0 is not found. With an immediate reboot and
> subsequent reboots, wlan0 *is* found.
>
> One could presume an incipient hardware failure.
>
> I ordered an external adapter.
> Case closed.
> cheers

FYI, less than $.02 worth.

I seem to have periodic issues with wireless , I use it so seldom. The
gui tools in whatever form are less than robust.

What I use now is 'wicd-curses',(yea terminals) not tied to any desktop
environment or window manager. Authentication works which seems to be a
failure elsewhere.

-- 
Peace,
Greg
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