One additional point of interest. When the wireless crashes, running
`ifconfig` produces this:


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:9e:9d:f8:d7
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2082346173504030 errors:12494089925926065 
dropped:4164700936942650 overruns:2082350468471325 frame:10411743752422035
          TX packets:2082350468471325 errors:8329401873885300 dropped:0 
overruns:2082350468471325 carrier:4164700936942650
          collisions:10411752342356625 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2082346173504030 (2.0 PB)  TX bytes:2082350468471325 (2.0 PB)
          Interrupt:45

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:159010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:159010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:11368725 (11.3 MB)  TX bytes:11368725 (11.3 MB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:fb:cb:37:f8
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:fbff:fecb:37f8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:38377 (38.3 KB)  TX bytes:27509 (27.5 KB)


Note the bizarrely high number of packets showing on the eth0 interface, which 
has never been used on this laptop with Ubuntu 12.04. When wireless is working, 
`ifconfig` shows:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:26:9e:9d:f8:d7  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:46 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:104152 (104.1 KB)  TX bytes:104152 (104.1 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:fb:cb:37:f8  
          inet addr:192.168.1.11  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:fbff:fecb:37f8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:105615 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:58852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:147673588 (147.6 MB)  TX bytes:5854028 (5.8 MB)

Why is that?

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