Comment 27 for bug 277634

This bug also affect my system, a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Intel wireless card running 8.04 LTS with Kernel Linux 2.6.24-27-generic. I always install all system updates. I had trouble getting WPA to work so it is configured to use WEP. lspci shows:

0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection (rev 61)

The wireless works fine for a while (sometimes a few minutes, sometimes an hour or two), then randomly drops out. I've been disabling/reenabling wireless or even rebooting to get it back, but after reading the other reports I wonder if it's really just the elapsed time that fixes it. This symptom has been present ever since I first installed Ubuntu on the brand-new machine about a year ago. It is especially annoying because I paid extra to get an Intel card to try to avoid such problems. (My previous system with a Broadcom card used "ndist" with windows drivers and worked great, but I haven't figured out a way to do that in 8.04)

I checked /var/log/sys* and there are no "supplicant" or "motd" messages in there.

I'd be willing to try the backport module, but when I bring up the Synaptic GUI it cannot find a package named "linux-backports-modules-jaunty".