Package: linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64
Version: 2.6.32-9
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze

The intel 5100 wireless on my thinkpad SL500 no longer works properly.
It works perfectly with 2.6.31, and it worked with at least 2.6.32-rc3
as well.  Now however, it will connect, work for a few seconds (it seems
to depend on the quantity of data passed through).  After a few seconds
of heavy traffic (like reloading a page in iceweasel), the wireless link
simply stops passing any traffic.  This if course makes the 2.6.32 kernel
rather useless on this laptop.  I have no idea if other laptops with the
same wireless chipset are affected, or if it is specific to this one
(given the lack of bug reports, I am inclined to believe it might be
specific to this machine type).

Any suggestion on how to track down what broke it so I can move on to
a current kernel on my laptop?

If I force a reconnect on the wireless, then I get another few seconds
of working traffic before it dies again.

I am using 5GHz 802.11n by the way, just in case the reason no one else
is seeing the bug is that everyone else runs 2.4GHz.  I suppose I should
test that by connecting to 2.4GHz instead to test that theory.

It works with 2.6.31 though, so clearly this can be fixed again.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), 
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (amd64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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