I am having a recurring problem with my wireless since upgrading to LM13. Every so often my wireless connection goes down, and then just sits there and cannot reconnect. It keeps asking me for the password (which I am definitely getting right) but it just won't reconnect. If I turn the wireless off and on it breaks completely, it just says "unavailable" on the network manager drop down tray menu. This happens with two different routers (work and home) so that's not the problem. It was working fine in LM12. The only way I can figure out how to fix it is to reboot.
Here is the output of mintwifi when everything is working properly:
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tom@tom-Latitude-E6220 ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
==> PCI ID = 8086:0082 (rev 34)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"O2wirelessED17E3"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:24:17:ED:17:E3
Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:27392 Invalid misc:202 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:8f:69:f0:99:73
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:e1c00000-e1c20000
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:552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:64044 (64.0 KB) TX bytes:64044 (64.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:11:96:8f:19:40
inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a11:96ff:fe8f:1940/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:100877 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58613 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:147469334 (147.4 MB) TX bytes:5710104 (5.7 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for tom:
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: 192.168.1.254
Address: 192.168.1.254#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.69
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.71
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.66
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.78
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.72
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.70
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.73
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.67
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.64
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.65
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.34.68
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tom@tom-Latitude-E6220 ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (rev 34)
==> PCI ID = 8086:0082 (rev 34)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 84:8f:69:f0:99:73
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:e1c00000-e1c20000
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:552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:64044 (64.0 KB) TX bytes:64044 (64.0 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:11:96:8f:19:40
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:137158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:197941121 (197.9 MB) TX bytes:8148587 (8.1 MB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for tom:
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Thanks