[ltp] spotty wireless with t520 w/Intel wifi and xubuntu 13.04

[Steven J. Owens]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 08:50:48PM -0600, Derrick Karpo wrote:
> Did you ever get any answer to this question?  I am curious if the
> problem may be that you have 2 network managers running (ie. Network
> Manager and wicd) and that they are competing with each other.

     No, no answer to the question.  I don't have wicd installed.  I
recently tried adding the line "options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1" to
/etc/modprobe/iwlwifi.conf, which now looks like this:

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# /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
# iwlwifi will dyamically load either iwldvm or iwlmvm depending on the
# microcode file installed on the system.  When removing iwlwifi, first
# remove the iwl?vm module and then iwlwifi.
remove iwlwifi \
(/sbin/lsmod | grep -o -e ^iwlmvm -e ^iwldvm -e ^iwlwifi | xargs /sbin/rmmod) \
&& /sbin/modprobe -r mac80211 
options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
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     This helped somewhat - for a few days the disappearing ESSID
problem went away.  Every now and then wifi would seem to freeze for
20-30 seconds, but it resumed on its own.  Then last night I had the
disappearing ESSID again, and again when I went to use my machine this
morning.

     This is the forum thread that suggested the 11n_disable=1.  It
appears they're troubleshooting my exact issue, but although the
thread is marked Solved, I'm not sure they solved it.  The final
comment from the OP makes a reference to shutting off bittorrent, and
I'm not using bittorrent.

     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2159809

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