Comment 42 for bug 352150

This just happened to me on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverik Beta..

I was using the net for more than 10 hours, made downloads. All was working fine until the wireless connection dropped.
Network manager was trying to bring the connection up again and asked me for the WPA/WPA2 password. The password was correct so I just pressed ok.
What seems weird is that the connection to the router seemed to be established (from the network manager status...)
But it was still trying to connect... and after a while it asked me the WPA/WPA2 password again. And again.. and again...

After right-clicking on the network status icon and removing the check on "Enable Wireless" and then re-enabling it reconnected to the wireless network again.

After right-clicking on the network status icon and removing the check on "Enable Wireless" and then re-enabling it started working fine again:

Oct 7 00:06:44 machados-laptop kernel: [43718.678051] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Oct 7 00:08:35 machados-laptop kernel: [43829.725625] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 7 00:14:23 machados-laptop kernel: [44177.377869] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Oct 7 00:14:28 machados-laptop kernel: [44182.864792] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready

I have not made any change to modprobe or anything suggested here. I'm using what comes with Maverick with no changes

It is interesting to see that during the day that message was also logged but the connection didn't drop:

Oct 6 16:34:08 machados-laptop kernel: [16562.971983] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 16:54:45 machados-laptop kernel: [17799.349886] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 16:56:52 machados-laptop kernel: [17926.751444] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Oct 6 17:00:52 machados-laptop kernel: [18166.767650] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Oct 6 18:55:38 machados-laptop kernel: [25053.165446] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 19:10:53 machados-laptop kernel: [25967.372717] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid

.....

Oct 6 21:24:03 machados-laptop kernel: [33958.248261] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 21:26:15 machados-laptop kernel: [34089.370274] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 11
Oct 6 21:31:15 machados-laptop kernel: [34389.382601] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 22:00:27 machados-laptop kernel: [36141.505662] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Oct 6 22:05:39 machados-laptop kernel: [36454.076384] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 22:15:37 machados-laptop kernel: [37052.027982] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid
Oct 6 23:05:00 machados-laptop kernel: [40014.923813] Skipping EDID probe due to cached edid