I would imagine that the driver turns off the wifi card to save power.
I tried using iwconfig to disable such features, but it didn't help.
However, I have experienced this problem during times of heavy use
because I watch movies over a network share while using wireless. The
problem exists then,
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: bcmwl-kernel-source
This is not the same problem as bug/427102 as that was apparently
resolved by moving from Net Manager to WICD. Switching to WICD did not
work for me.
My problem is that my Macbook Pro 5,5 running Karmic 64 is silently
dropping connec
Moved to another nic. Works fine. Tried tweaking the BCM4322 with
iwconfig, no positive results, problem persists.
I am having a problem with the BCM4322 so I will submit a bug if there
isn't already one.
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Network-manager silently disconnects frequently
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427102
I have a macbook with a "Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)" card and with both WICD and NM, this
problem exists. Going to try a new 802.11 USB NIC
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Network-manager silently disconnects frequently
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427102
You received this
I have this problem as well. It happens in all guest OS's. I resolve
the issue by using RDP in to my Windows guests instead of directly
viewing the VM. My Linux VM's I never directly interface anyway.
8.04 AMD64 Nvidia, all standard 8.04 build versions. Vmware 6.5 beta
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