On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Toralf Förster wrote: > With a ThinkPad T400 with "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] > Network Connection" I experienced few times in the last week that the suddenly > the network stops to work - no messages in /var/log/messages nor any other > outout. Only a restart of the network services helped > > n22 ~ # uname -a > Linux n22 3.1.0-rc9+ #1 SMP Fri Oct 14 19:21:56 CEST 2011 i686 Intel(R) > Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > It is an almost stable Gentoo. > > Anybody else made similar experiences ? > It looks like werner is reporting a similar problem in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/15/67 but with a different laptop, information is vague in that regression report. Adding him, Wey-Yi Guy from Intel, and linux-wireless mailing list to the cc. What's the last kernel prior to 3.1-rc9 that worked for you? What does "iwconfig" show? What does "dmesg | grep iwlagn" show?