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My Ubuntu 11.10 laptop does not connect to my home router when the power source has been disconnected. When plugged back into the mains, the wireless starts working again.

I have a HP Pavilion dv6.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Ben
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The Power Manager is invoked when you switch to battery. /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless (part of the pm-utils package) is what caused the same problem for me (Dell D630). I looked through the files in dpkg -L pm-utils, read man pm-powersave and found that I could disable the "feature" by creating /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless.

So to fix this, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:

sudo touch /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless
Alaa Ali
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waltinator
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  • Fantastic, thank you! Just to add, I had to restart Ubuntu afterwards, and then it worked great! – Ben Dec 21 '11 at 19:57
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According to man pm-powersave, if you want to disable the script for wireless, then type 

sudo touch /etc/pm/power.d/wireless

I look forward to one day where the pm-utils will be fixed (for once and all)!

Braiam
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user231814
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Same problem here

there is a number of different things to try

here is how i fixed the problem

in terminal

iwconfig wlan0

your output

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"YOURSSID"  ACCESSPOINT INFO  
          Bit Rate=58.5 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm  
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Power Management:on
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-30 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:28   Missed beacon:0

notice the power management on

if you see that here is how you fix this problem

again in terminal

 sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off

your new output

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"YOURSSIDl"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.457 GHz  Access Point: YOURACCESSPOINT  
          Bit Rate=65 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm  
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
         Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-28 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:106  Invalid misc:29   Missed beacon:0

Notice power management is now off

This is caused by laptops excessive efforts to save power.

This worked with a dell laptop

latitude e6410

ubuntu 12.04 lts 64bit

do not waste your time with

sudo touch /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless

or

sudo touch /etc/pm/power.d/wireless

those solves do not work

user3243994
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