I was running Ubuntu 12.04 for a while on my Dell e6410 but decided to switch to Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon. The problem I have is that every couple of hours, the wireless will stop working. The wifi icon in the taskbar still shows connected but I cannot ping my gateway (wireless router). If I disable and re-enable wireless using the taskbar icon, it comes back.
Here is the output of mintwifi:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4727 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"jpan"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:23:69:F9:7A:FA
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=48/70 Signal level=-62 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:23 Invalid misc:59 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5c:26:0a:3f:5e:87
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:20 Memory:f6900000-f6920000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:84486 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:84486 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7565569 (7.5 MB) TX bytes:7565569 (7.5 MB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 68:a3:c4:0f:f2:eb
inet addr:192.168.0.13 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::6aa3:c4ff:fe0f:f2eb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2060260 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1434078 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2710181850 (2.7 GB) TX bytes:471465153 (471.4 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.0.2
Address: 192.168.0.2#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.71
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.78
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.70
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.68
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.65
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.73
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.66
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.69
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.67
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.72
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.64