NM dis- and reconnects every few seconds on all WPA(2) networks; wicd doesn't -- Atheros AR9285

After installung and using wicd, giving me a mostly stable connection, it occurs to me that this may be a bug in network-manager, not in the kernel. Thus, I marked network-manager as also affected.

I'm running network-manager{,-gnome} 0.8-0ubuntu2.

Hi Felix,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 535424

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

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The issue still exists and also happens on 2.6.34-rc{4,5} from mainline PPA.

I have similar problem.

I have ACER Aspire 3680-2682 laptop with Atheros 5007EG Wi-Fi adapter.

After short time of work it disconnects from W-Fi network.

What is worst, it does not connect back automatically.

In 9.04 and 9.10 after disconnect, it starts connecting automatically.

In alpha and beta versions on 10.04 there was no such problem with disconnections.

But after installing 10.04 release I have notised that after disconnection the Network Manager does not start connecting again.

I am not sure, whether the problem is with Atheros drivers in kernel or it is the Network Manager issue.

But it really affects me.

I am thinking on switching back to 9.10

I have the same first problem related here above!

$ lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
$ uname -r
2.6.32-22-generic

I have an Acer 5570Z-2607
Ubuntu 10.04 32bits
It have started since I've installed Ubuntu version 9.04. At 8ths and 7ths it didn't happen.
Thanks!

I have Asus EEE 1005P netbook with ubuntu UNR 10.04 2.6.32-22 generic with Atheris AR9285 wireless chip using the ath9k driver
I can use my wireless with a WPA (16 byte password).
However when I used a 64 byte hex password the system drops the connection every second.
The gnome network applet says the speed is 1 Mb/s while I have an N router.

same problem after a fresh install of 11.04 64bit, wireless is practically unusable

Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

kernel is 2.6.38-8-generic

and here is the result of lsmod

Module Size Used by
parport_pc 36959 0
ppdev 17113 0
vesafb 13761 1
binfmt_misc 17565 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 28103 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 71137 1
arc4 12529 2
snd_hda_intel 33211 2
snd_hda_codec 103804 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13604 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 96625 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
ath9k 118238 0
snd_rawmidi 30486 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 17606 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61621 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
hp_wmi 13706 0
sparse_keymap 13898 1 hp_wmi
snd_timer 29602 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14462 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
mac80211 294370 1 ath9k
psmouse 73535 0
uvcvideo 72195 0
i7core_edac 27903 0
ath9k_common 13851 1 ath9k
serio_raw 13166 0
ath9k_hw 323077 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
videodev 82052 1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 17078 1 videodev
ath 23773 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
fglrx 2739144 104
edac_core 53845 3 i7core_edac
snd 67382 14 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
cfg80211 178528 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
soundcore 12680 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
video 19438 0
hp_accel 21880 0
lis3lv02d 19893 1 hp_accel
input_polldev 14007 1 lis3lv02d
lp 17825 0
parport 46458 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
r8169 48022 0
ahci 25951 3
libahci 26642 1 ahci

Also affects 11.04/Natty.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.