[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Tue Sep 30 15:44:28 CEST 2008

On 30/09/2008, at 10:37 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=18
> Authentication with 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b timed out.
> Added BSSID 00:04:e2:a1:76:0b into blacklist

Yeah. That's exactly the same sort of thing I was seeing, which 
clearing the essid seems to help with most of the time. I 
occasionally find the wifi just stops working completely for no 
apparent reason, ping and all other traffic fails but it otherwise 
seems normal from the iwconfig and ifconfig output. Other times I 
get pages and pages of this rapidly flooded in dmesg:
AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from 
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from 
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from 
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from 
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX AR6000 
disconnected from XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
without any line breaks and where the XX is the access point 
address. The only thing that seems to fix it when it does that is to 
reboot.
Cheers,
Alex