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I had some issues with WiFi with my Lenovo y580, I could connect my home WiFi but it would disonnect me after few minutes and I wasn't able to reconnect I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I believe my network card is "AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet"

Changes I have been doing before it stopped working at all:

191  lspci -vv | grep Atheros
192  sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-`uname -r`
193  wget -O- http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc.tar.bz2 | tar -xj
194  cd compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc
195  ./scripts/driver-select alx
196  make
197  sudo make install
198  sudo modprobe alx

It would be great if I could revert this change so ubuntu would use the previous standard driver.
Then I could at least connect to some WiFi and maybe this problem was router's issue and not my network driver one

Thanks for any help

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  • The device and driver you show are for ehternet not wifi. Please run lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net lsusb nm-tool sudo iwlist scan iwconfig rfkill list all lsmod post the output at pastebin.com then post the link here. Thanks
    – Wild Man
    Mar 10, 2014 at 11:02
  • @WildMan pastebin.com/5vCeNPAd By reinstalling packages listed in following question: askubuntu.com/questions/217361/… I am now back in state where I aws before -home WiFi works for a few minutes, but then disconnects and not even restarting the router does help then... However I have no connection problems with connecting via mobilephone wifi hotspot, however I have 2GB bandwidth limit on mobile and it is rather limiting
    – ViRPo
    Mar 11, 2014 at 20:03

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Ok, after going 4 hours without being disconnected I can say, that I have solved the issue

The solution is to go to Network -> Edit Connections -> Wireless -> Click on WiFi -> Edit -> IPv6 Settings

There, you have to select Method: Ignore

So it is IPv6 related issue. Somehow.

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