Re: Any insight on this ubuntu bug?

[Tony Espy <espy canonical com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:44 -0500, Tom Sutherland wrote:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/352228
> >
> > Wireless gets disconnected every so often and it appears the only
> > workaround is to do a "sudo restart network-manager"
> >
> > It makes sense that this is a crappy firmware/driver issues with
> > specific Intel cards, but is it possible network-manager isn't coping
> > well?
>
> I seem to recall a kernel patch for this bug being submitted in the past
> week or two.
>
> Basically, it's a driver bug.  I'd be very skeptical of a simple NM
> restart fixing this as that doesn't do anything reinitialize or fix the
> driver.  An rmmod/modprobe is necessary in situations like that to
> re-load the driver and get it talking to the card again.

I just added a comment to the bug pretty much echoing Dan.

That said, I also think there's a possibility that the system calls made 
by NM and wpa_supplicant during a restart might be sufficient to jog the 
driver into working again.  Just a theory...

Regards,
/tony