Just for the record, I do my testing at a University with hundreds of
access points that I roam between and two seperate wifi networks that I
roam between. I have tested this roaming across thse access points with
both unencrypted and WPA encrypted connections. I _did_ see wifi
connection problems
Well, the reason I suggest that this is related to roaming is that when
the dropouts occur, I clearly see messages in the log showing that
NetworkManager is attempting to roam (see the original bug description).
In fact, it roams onto a network with an SSID of '(none)' and then back
again.
With
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 291760 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760
Alright, reading through the comments here I see the reference to bug
#291760, and I think the remaining behavior I'm seeing is just what's
described in that bug. So I went ahead and marked this as a
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 291760 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760
My symptoms were not like the above mentioned bug #291760 (No packet
loss whatsoever), I have no problems while roaming, but all of the
sudden my wireless would go dead. I would then have to reboot as I
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 291760 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/291760
My intention is to keep this bug focused to the actual problem I was
originally reporting (as the person who opened it). Since that problem
seems to be completely described by bug #291760, I marked this as a
Changed the title to more accurately reflect the original problem being
reported here.
Remember, just because your WiFi is working under Jaunty, it doesn't
necessarily mean that you're confirming a fix of this problem. You have
to be on a network with multiple roamable APs in order to test this.
