Comment 36 for bug 149214

I can confirm Denis Walrave's experience: the same issue happens with the Hardy kernel as the Gutsy kernel.

The only common issues I have noted are:
1. Heavy network load.
2. Occasionally the first failure is accompanied by a note that the EC did not return a write confirmation.

The second message is related to the embedded controller in the Thinkpad T61p I use, but has occurred coincidentally enough times that I suspect there may be some race issue, triggered only under load, that the EC access or an SMI trap causes to run and make a timing constraint (or another bug) in the wireless firmware show up.