[YLUG] wifi bouncing - sorry if this appears a few times

[Stephen Patterson]

I've got a bit of an odd problem tonight with the wifi on my laptop bouncing. I'm using the same access point that
I've been using for the last couple of years, and though the laptop's new to me, I installed much of debian over
wifi, but tonight the wifi seems to bounce out about every 8 seconds. I'm running debian lenny & unstable.

Linux thynne 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 18:29:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev
20)

The laptop's receiving a correct IP from the correct ESSID, and "iwlist scan" only shows my own AP. Any ideas folks?

Mar  2 19:32:42 thynne dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.128
Mar  2 19:32:42 thynne dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.235 -- renewal in 17438 seconds.
Mar  2 19:32:48 thynne kernel: [ 2261.596043] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 7607
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: All rights reserved.
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: 
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Mar  2 19:32:56 thynne dhclient: Bind socket to interface: No such device
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne kernel: [ 2273.344148] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: All rights reserved.
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: 
Mar  2 19:33:00 thynne dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.684058] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.684079] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:12:17:e7:46:70
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.685505] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:12:17:e7:46:70 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.685520] wlan0: authenticated Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.685530] wlan0: associate with AP 00:12:17:e7:46:70
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.689672] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:12:17:e7:46:70 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=3)
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.689672] wlan0: associated
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.689672] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:12:17:e7:46:70)
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne kernel: [ 2274.689672] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:11:3b:13:fa:64
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne dhclient: Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:11:3b:13:fa:64
Mar  2 19:33:01 thynne dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Mar  2 19:33:02 thynne dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Mar  2 19:33:02 thynne dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.128
Mar  2 19:33:02 thynne dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.235 -- renewal in
20302 seconds.


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