It seems nobody noticed.... while you cannot browse the web, many other network activities work fine.
I usually, not always, can use apt-get update, upgrade and install, and....Skype works! (never tried wget) This AWUS036H thing is absurd, and is lasting for years. Has anybody found a definitive solution? What OFTEN works for me is to sudo: ifconfig wlan1 down iw reg set BO iwconfig wlan1 txpower 30 iwconfig wlan1 frag 512 iwconfig wlan1 rts 512 iwconfig wlan1 rate 5.5M auto ifconfig wlan1 up What is really absurd, though, is that sometimes it is not necessary. I can use many nearby hotspots and try many neighbour's wifi (with their permission and kindly provided WPA), and each time the results are just unpredictable. In addition, I'd say that the porpouse of the first two commands (reg set and txpower) is THE OPPOSITE of the latter, that are aimed to decrease and better manage EM noise, but this strange mix often, NOT ALWAYS, works. In my experience, the farther the AP and the less in line of sight, the worse the alfa works, despite the apparent strenght of signal showed in network manager (that has to be good anyway). Something else I noticed, the connection drops every time, in less than optimal conditions, the upload increases, as it happens with torrents. To be precise it is not the connection that seems to drop, THE ANTENNA ITSELF SWITCH OFF. Same results since ubu 10.04 up to 12.10, any possible kernel in between. Sometimes I also tried to use Realtek drivers instead of those included in Ubu. Something else nobody noticed......in Puppy Linux (didn.t test the latest) it works much better!!! and, just to underline it, in Puppy also ndiswrapper works perfectly, while in Ubu it just doesn't work at all anymore (since 9.10 i think) I prepared a complete backup, and later today I'll try to install a fresh Ubu Gnome 12.10 upgrading to Kernel 3.8.3. I'm not really interested in cutting edge upgrades, as long as I can browse, use Skype and download few torrents I'm fine, but I'm forced to try everything because of this poor supported product. Among the changes in the latest stable kernel I red a better handling of USB peripherals, many of wich, it seems, tends to be cut out after a short period of time. It's just a try, I don't even REALLY understand of USB or network or drivers or whatever. Puppy Linux first, then Ubu and MANY other distros never required me to go deeper in things, so I never really "learned linux". It is so easy to go "around" obstacles instead of learn how to fix them that when some "serious" problem like this occurs I don't know what to do. This time, though, I'm not alone.... Please, let me know if somebody scientifically or accidentaly came up with a working solution -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455354 Title: Alfa AWUS036H wireless disconnects after 1min on Karmic Koala 9.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/455354/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
