[Bug 1847917] Re: WiFI keeps dropping packets (rtl8187b)

2019-10-13 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
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[Bug 1847917] [NEW] WiFI keeps dropping packets (rtl8187b)

2019-10-13 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: I'm running a TOSHIBA A205 laptop, with Ubuntu 18.04, x64 version. For some reason, I can only stay connected to WiFI for a a few minutes before the computer starts randomly dropping packets. Since the driver version is always the same as the kernel version, I'm blaming this

[Bug 1788081] Re: Cannot connect to "shared" ipv4 network ("Error: Connection activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.)"

2018-11-11 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
@ajkan001: Actually, I think I did. Apparently, 18.04 needs dnsmasq to be running, whereas 16.04 didn't seem to require the user to even have dnsmasq installed. So, make sure you have dnsmasq installed, using (without quotes) "sudo apt install dnsmasq-base". Sometimes, however, dnsmasq just

[Bug 1788081] Re: Cannot connect to "shared" ipv4 network ("Error: Connection activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.)"

2018-08-20 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
** Description changed: I have a connection profile which is supposed to allow my computers to - talk to eachother over an ad-hoc eithernet connection. For me, this is + talk to eachother over an ad-hoc ethernet connection. For me, this is mostly useful for when I need to transfer large files

[Bug 1788081] Re: Cannot connect to "shared" ipv4 network ("Error: Connection activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.)"

2018-08-20 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
BTW, I forgot to mention a few things: I haven't had this issue with Arch GNU/Linux, so I'm guessing this is NOT an upstream issue. Then again, I haven't tried doing this on Arch in quite a while, and I don't think I can attempt it now because the computer in question is having some hard drive

[Bug 1788081] [NEW] Cannot connect to "shared" ipv4 network ("Error: Connection activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (no available address, timeout, etc.)"

2018-08-20 Thread Tyler Johnson via ubuntu-bugs
Public bug reported: I have a connection profile which is supposed to allow my computers to talk to eachother over an ad-hoc eithernet connection. For me, this is mostly useful for when I need to transfer large files over from one computer to another (the only network I have is WiFi, and it's