Hello, I'm an Ubuntu Dapper user with an Atheros 5212 based chipset in my thinkpad's wireless card. I am using the madwifi-old, which ships with Dapper. Recently, I've been having lots of issues where NetworkManager won't scan for any networks and simply times out waiting for this card. Now, I know the 5212 does take a long time to scan, but I haven't had much trouble up until now. I tried to use the madwifi-ng packages put together by the linux2go website, but unfortunately can't seem to get the interface to come back up after a suspend easily. I didn't seem to have any scanning issues with the -ng drivers. Now the weird thing is that this is fairly random. I use pam-keyring to authenticate my keyring to my login password. Sometimes, I'll be able to login and it will jump right on my WPA2 network. Other times, it will time out scanning networks. I have to "disable wireless" and enable it again in network manager with my fingers crossed. Just this morning, I've repeated the process about 10 times, and still my wifi (nor any neighbors) pops up. I can, however, do a iwlist ath0 scanning. I get my network and all the others in the area no trouble. In /var/log/daemon.log, here is a snippet of info relevant to the scan: Sep 5 09:03:44 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^INow managing wireless (802.11) device 'ath0'. Sep 5 09:03:44 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Imatch Sep 5 09:03:45 localhost last message repeated 23 times Sep 5 09:04:05 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning. Get a better one. Sep 5 09:04:05 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device ath0 returned an error. Sep 5 09:04:46 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning. Get a better one. Sep 5 09:04:46 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device ath0 returned an error. Sep 5 09:05:27 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning. Get a better one. Sep 5 09:05:27 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device ath0 returned an error. Sep 5 09:05:33 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^IDeactivating device ath0. Sep 5 09:05:36 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Imatch Sep 5 09:05:36 localhost last message repeated 6 times Sep 5 09:06:28 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^IDeactivating device ath0. Sep 5 09:06:30 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Imatch Sep 5 09:06:31 localhost last message repeated 6 times Sep 5 09:07:49 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I get_scan_results (): card took too much time scanning. Get a better one. Sep 5 09:07:49 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): device ath0 returned an error. Sep 5 09:07:54 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^IGoing to sleep. Sep 5 09:07:54 localhost NetworkManager: <information>^Imatch Sep 5 09:07:54 localhost last message repeated 5 times Any ideas?
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