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WiFi drops after period of time for ubuntu 12.04 on HP Pavilion g seres

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I have a shiny new HP Pavilion g series laptop (g7). The very first boot of the system was a gparted-live usb to split out some space for Ubuntu. The second was a 12.04 live usb.

Mostly it is working extremely well. The exception is WiFi connectivity. It seems to connect at first, but then after anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours I lose connection and cannot reconnect until I reboot the router. Sometimes an RFKill block and unblock will fix it. And yesterday I saw a suggestion to remove the NetworkManager.conf file. The latter seems to have extended the time to failure to hours rather than minutes.

What should my next steps be?

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answered 3 Years ago ainubt · Accepted Answer

Ok, more specific Steps:

Run lspci and look for your wifi adapter

In my case it turns out to be a Realtek RTL8188CE

Googleing that brings me to the manufacturer's page. Then search for "linux" in the page's search box leads me to a big list of downloads. Here: http://www.realtek.com.tw/search/default.aspx?keyword=linux

And on that page I see my model number and click on it, bringing me here: http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8188CE

Oh look! Nice shiny driver update! Only a bit over a week old. Nice. Time to download that.

Extract tar-ixvf linux_max8*tar.bz2

cd into the directory and look at the readme file. Install is pretty straightforward. Change to superuser. Make. Make install. Reboot.

Give that a try. (Saving now. will edit after reboot.)

That worked just fine. I am going to assume that all is well and accept this answer. Hope it helps anyone watching.