I lose Internet connection whenever I try to download anything

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network

  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
       logical name: wmaster0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:0f:b5:8e:b9:56
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k ip=192.168.0.3 latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:17 memory:defc0000-defcffff

cool can you give the output of:

dpkg -l | grep linux-back

Thanks

hmmm

there's no output

I am taken back to prompt and ~$

ok then run:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic linux-backports-modules-`uname -r` linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic

ok, installed, and I suppose you still want the output of

dpkg -l | grep linux-back
ii linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-16-generic 2.6.31-16.18 Ubuntu supplied Linux modules for version 2.
ii linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic 2.6.31.16.29 Backported drivers for generic kernel image
ii linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic 2.6.31.16.29 Backported wireless drivers for generic kern

cool, ok reboot and give it a whirl

Ok, I am cautiously optimistic... I have downloaded and installed few packages in Synaptic and didn't have problems. Although, downloaded and installed Google Chrome for Linux... So far so good!

I will try few more things and post the results back here. Oh it's been months, and I hope this is the breakthrough...

Now, can you tell me, in short, and in plain English, what did I install that (hopefully) solved the problem?

Thanks.

Good choice with Chrome. I believe you will like it much more than garbage firefox

Still testing... It had happened before that my downloads appeared to work fine and then after few hours or next day I had the same problem.

Will post the results back here tomorrow.

Thanks.

Unfortunately, I have to report that the fix didn't work.

For some reason, yesterday I was able to download several packages and internet files with no problem, but this morning the same problem is back: whenever I try to download anything, I lose Internet connection on all my computers, Ubuntu and Windows.

This is really weird; I was searching all over and I don't see any posts with similar problem...

> driver=ath5k
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/432353
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros

Sorry, but I am not sure what I am supposed to do here. It looks, from the links you posted, that some people can not connect to Internet at all... I can, I have problem only when I try to download something.

Is it possible that I am the only one with this problem?

Could be :D don't worry there are many time when this happens to me:
no one else has that problem besides me, but here in this case, I
recommend reporting a bug [1]

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

~~~
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but
only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
-- Linus Torvalds

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Have you tried using ndiswrapper instead of the driver you currently use?