Comment 122 for bug 291760

Hi !

I just installed Maverick Meerkat on my Thinkpad T41p and i'm experiencing the same problem.

Here's some syslog information

Nov 6 01:18:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25646.742212] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:18:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25646.742216] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:18:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25646.742219] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:18:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25646.742223] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:18:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25646.742226] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.728508] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738293] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738298] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738302] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738306] (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738310] (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738313] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 6 01:20:25 fish-ThinkPad-T41p kernel: [25766.738317] (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

Every 120s my Wifi connection breakdown then reconnect.

Here's some material reports.

02:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC [168c:1014] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Phillips Components Device [17ab:8331]
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at c0210000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ath5k
 Kernel modules: ath5k

fish@fish-ThinkPad-T41p:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

I'll try the WICD workaround