<p dir="ltr">That sounds like a driver problem. What Wi-Fi card and which drivers have you tried? If it's Broadcom, have you tried b4x-cutter (I think it's called that. Been a while since I had to use it.)? Or possibly ndiswrapper? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Jul 2015 14:34, "Richard Harke" <<a href="mailto:paleopenguin@gmail.com">paleopenguin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have been having trouble with wifi for several weeks now. Multiple tries to connect,<div>then the connection drops at random times. I have just bought a new Acer laptop</div><div>and installed jessie but the problems persist. I was at starbucks and after connection,</div><div>the connection would drop in 4 to 6 seconds. Then I noticed in syslog that</div><div>the wpa_supplicant is cycling on and off at about that rate. One of the messages</div><div>in syslog suggested deleting /run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0 which I did. But it</div><div>reappeared a few seconds later. There is also a /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0</div><div>which seems rather odd.</div><div><br></div><div>Any clues, anybody??</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div></div>
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