[ale] Unreliable wireless connection

[Brian Pitts]

On 08/04/2010 02:03 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I've converted a friend to Linux by installing ubuntu 10.04.  There are 
> two problems.  The first is that the wireless connection only works part 
> of the time.  Mostly only when I'm there.  The symptoms are that it is 
> pretty much dead and the log says "... DISABLED"  after a bit sometimes 
> it comes back up and says   "... ENABLED".  Other times it doesn't.  

You sure they aren't pressing the key combination that disables or
enables the wireless?

We see this a lot at Free IT Athens. Someone toogles the hardware kill
switch for their wireless radio and doesn't know why wireless topped
working.

> The second problem is that gnuCash is somehow overwriting the firefox 
> menu.  He can never get firefox to work from either the menu or the icon 
> in the panel.  In both cases when I go to the "properties" of either, 
> the "/usr/bin/firefox %U" has been replaced with a path to his gnuCash 
> log file.   That's one of  the strangest things I've ever seen

I'd run memtest and an fsck before doing any other troubleshooting.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts