I have this issue with Karmic (2.6.31-16) on an Eee PC 1005HA.

There are two separate bugs:
1. ath9k stops working. What you typically see is that it can't reconnect after 
it lost connection (I can reproduce that 100% by running my microwave) but it 
can also happen as a result of the "DMA failed to stop in 10 ms" problem. What 
you see is
Jan 10 17:52:58 eeepc kernel: [20874.572107] wlan0: direct probe to AP 
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out
The AP is a NetGear WNDR3700 FWIW.

sudo rmmod ath9k;sudo modprobe ath9k
fixes this.

2. Also, nm-applet gives up and displays the  WEP code entry box (erroneously 
but maybe the return code from the driver is wrong),  but even if you enter the 
correct WEP code it won't reconnect. This is fixed most easily by killing and 
restarting  nm-applet:
pkill nm-applet;nm-applet &

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ath9k - nm-applet don't connect to any network after 2 hours (+-)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439723
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