Wireless networking was always a bit patchy for me on my Dell Latitude D630 while running Ubuntu Gutsy version of Linux. It would work fine for ages and then freeze up suddenly, requiring a hard reboot to get things working (Apache would become unkillable, I guess because it was attached to the broken Wireless networking driver.) Problems always showed up when I transferred large amounts of data between Linux and my Macbook. Files copied fine for a few minutes and then the whole house of cards would collapse. Crash! Boom!
The first time I looked for a solution nothing turned up, but eventually I went searching again, and after digging into all sorts of forums and websites I found the simpe solution on the Dell Linux Wiki:
Create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ipw3945 and add:
blacklist ipw3945Add to /etc/modules:
iwl3945
Reboot after doing that and all will be fine in the world again! I haven’t had any networking issues since replacing the ipw3945 driver with the iwl3945 one!
Sorry to hear that your wireless is sketchy… But extremely excited to hear that you are running Ubuntu on your Dell!
I hope to be ordering a D630 for work in the next few days, so this might come in very useful!
Awesome. I have had a flaky network connection for a while, but changing the drivers fixed it. Thanks a lot.
Thanks from me too. I am running 9.10 but I had the same problem. Fortunately this fix worked for me too.
This worked for me – thanks.
WoW after some complicated workarrounds that never worked, this one was simple and … it worked!!
Ooooh!, just once, any hints?
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