[Bug 78181] Re: intermittent WPA connection

[manu]

Humm, I don't think that has anything to do with my problem. I could
provide the output of Knetworkmanager and wpa_supplicant in
/var/log/daemon.log. Is there any confidential information printed on
that log?

Anyway, every time the link drops I see this in daemon.log:

eth1: link timed out.
SWITCH: found better connection 'eth1/3Com' than current connection 'eth1/3Com'.  same_ssid=1, have_link=0
Will activate connection 'eth1/3Com'.
Device eth1 activation scheduled...
Deactivating device eth1.
 localhost dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid with pid 22001
 localhost dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file
 localhost dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Activation (eth1) started...
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Activation (eth1/wireless): access point '3Com' is encrypted, but NO valid key exists.  New key needed.
Activation (eth1) New wireless user key requested for network '3Com'.
Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for interface eth1
DHCP daemon state is now 11 (unknown) for interface eth1
DHCP daemon state is now 14 (normal exit) for interface eth1
Activation (eth1) New wireless user key for network '3Com' received.
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.

It continues for a while connecting until it finally connects. But there
is only one access point, it should not switch to a better connection.
Everybody else is running Windows and they don't get disconnected.

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intermittent WPA connection
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78181