Realtek RTL8187 keeps losing connection (Mint 16)

[zzzpavel]

Hi,
I installed Mint and have wifi connection issue already for a month - my computer keep losing internet connection every 15-30 minutes and the only way to get internet back is to reboot computer. It is not convenient, can you help me to fix this issue?

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 ~ $ inxi -v 3
System:    Host: pk-P5K-E Kernel: 3.11.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.1) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 16 Petra
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5K-E version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 1013 date: 03/21/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7200 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3) bmips: 10155.9 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1596.00 MHz 2: 1596.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.14.3 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) FAILED: nouveau Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV84 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Network:   Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 ver: 1.30 port: d800 bus-ID: 02:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter driver: rtl8187 usb-ID: 0bda:8187
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 208.1GB (11.3% used) 1: model: KINGSTON_SV100S2 
           2: model: WDC_WD800BB 
Info:      Processes: 138 Uptime: 13 min Memory: 397.5/2015.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.1 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

Thanks!

[Kalyk]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

I read in an earlier post the same problems.
They had it solved by installing ALL of the updates.
So also the cat.5 updates, which contains something like firmware and similar.
Did you already try that?