Wifi usb adapter dropping out after updates

I don't know if this is the exact problem but after my zorin did some updates my belkin wifi usb dongle has been dropping out every 10 or sominutes, the connection is terribly slow aswell. I am not sure if it's just on the way out (which it shouldn't be, because it's only 3 months old if that), or the updates did something to the drivers ect.

Belkin Wireless USB Adapter (N300)

when i run ndiswrapper -l it says invalid driver?

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 0c
serial: ac:22:0b:75:90:c8
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f7100000-f7100fff memory:f2100000-f2103fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@3:8
logical name: wlan1
serial: ec:1a:59:fa:c0:50
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=***.***.x.x multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn


Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 050d:845a Belkin Components F7D2101 802.11n Surf & Share Wireless Adapter v1000 [Realtek RTL8192SU]

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"NETGEAR29" Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 9C:D3:6D:06:75:E0
Bit Rate:150 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-**** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=90/100 Signal level=56/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

Can you please post the result of:

lsmod

Module Size Used by
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 31823 4
rfcomm 38139 0
bnep 17830 2
bluetooth 158447 10 rfcomm,bnep
binfmt_misc 17292 1
ppdev 12849 0
eeepc_wmi 12949 0
asus_wmi 19624 1 eeepc_wmi
sparse_keymap 13658 1 asus_wmi
r8712u 163906 0
dm_multipath 22747 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 174347 1
nvidia 10304303 41
serio_raw 13027 0
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_hda_intel 32719 5
snd_hda_codec 109562 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_rawmidi 25424 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_pcm 80916 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51592 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 28931 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
parport_pc 32114 1
snd 62218 20 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
mac_hid 13077 0
wmi 18744 1 asus_wmi
soundcore 14635 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14108 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
dm_raid45 76451 0
xor 25987 1 dm_raid45
dm_mirror 21822 0
dm_region_hash 16100 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18193 3 dm_raid45,dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
btrfs 638387 0
zlib_deflate 26622 1 btrfs
libcrc32c 12543 1 btrfs
usbhid 41937 0
hid 81731 1 usbhid
video 19115 0
r8169 56396 0
zram 18193 1

anyone got an answer?

Hi,

pleae be patient, MV will get back to you when he has time!.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary. The drive for your card is included in the kernel.
Try this. First of all unplug the belkin usb.
Open terminal, plug an ethernet cable to get internet and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-firmware

Then reboot.
Once you get back to desktop, plug the belkin USB and see if that helped.

I can't run an ethernet cable because the router is in a locked room. Anyhow, I tried a different usb port and it seems to work better, but when i put it back in the usb port I had it in before it plays up again. How do i test a usb port to see if its faulty?

Check this out:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu ... post751034