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 the other drivers (madwifi, ndiswrapper) I can watch this roaming occur as well, but it occurs in a sensible way. It occasionally roams onto a valid alternative MAC address, presumably based on the signal strength; it doesn't roam onto '(none)' and let the network drop out while this is occurring. And it roams rarely, maybe every several hours, not every few minutes. There may be other factors involved, of course. But the behavior for me is still definitely the same as before. I'm not sure how much more information I can provide. The kernel version on Jaunty is (the standard release kernel): Linux eee900 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The other information was provided before, but I will repeat: lspci: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) network: WEP 64-bit key with 5 access points on the same SSID -- ath5k: frequent, intermittent dropouts when roaming between APs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
