hrm. i got tired of my wifi dropping again and did a quick search.

gutsy and intel 3945

… Once I am connected the card seems to work good. The problem is that I have to be very close (1 or 2 meters ) to the wifi access point for being able to connect. Once I am connected I can go further away without problems.

sure enough, just walk over to the access point and reconnect. boo. atleast it’s a relatively painless fix till i can figure out what’s going on.

$ dmesg | grep -v Inbound | grep -v OutputIN | grep eth1: | head -15
[ 694.282634] eth1: Initial auth_alg=0
[ 694.282644] eth1: authenticate with AP [removed]
[ 694.284705] eth1: RX authentication from [removed] (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
[ 694.284709] eth1: authenticated
[ 694.284711] eth1: associate with AP [removed]
[ 694.287366] eth1: authentication frame received from [removed], but not in authenticate state – ignored
[ 694.290284] eth1: RX AssocResp from [removed] (capab=0×411 status=0 aid=3)
[ 694.290288] eth1: associated
[ 1252.925216] eth1: RX deauthentication from [removed] (reason=7)
[ 1252.925222] eth1: deauthenticated
[ 1252.937606] eth1: RX deauthentication from [removed] (reason=7)
[ 1253.936586] eth1: authenticate with AP [removed]
[ 1254.136483] eth1: authenticate with AP [removed]
[ 1254.336387] eth1: authenticate with AP [removed]
[ 1254.536279] eth1: authentication with AP [removed]timed out