I disagree with the duplicate link to 578431.
That bug is just about wifi components spamming to Syslog.
This bug covers a situation where people's WiFi connections are being
repeatedly dropped (to the point of unusability) due to issues in the
wifi stack. The logging captures the drops.
Specifically, the messages discussed are different:
May 25 19:57:18 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED
May 25 19:57:23 ubuntu wpa_supplicant[1161]: nl80211:
send_and_recv-nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
vs from 57843:
May 10 20:06:37 Otherland wpa_supplicant[1741]:
I have a Centrino 6205.
Lots of these
Jul 1 13:52:15 jon-HP2 wpa_supplicant[1590]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-
STARTED
that come with these:
Jul 1 13:52:15 jon-HP2 wpa_supplicant[1590]: nl80211:
send_and_recv-nl_recvmsgs failed: -33
in my logs, some of these
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