Comment 6 for bug 333730

I have been running into this same issue with ath9k and kernal 2.6.27-11. Just a quick note, however. To fix the stability issue, I replaced Network Manager with Wicd and haven't had my wireless drop it's connection yet. All this really tells me is that the stability issue with Network Manager, and not ath9k.

Per Network manager's issues, I am having the exact same problem. Network manager says it's connected, however if you try to bring up a browser or ping another computer, you realize you have no real connection. plus if you click the network manager icon, the bubble next to the network is not actually filled in. You click on the network again and it goes though the whole connection process again. Until this is fixed, I recommend people just use Wicd.

ath9k has been great for me so far now that I am using Wicd. It's almost as fast as using NDISwrapper with the Windows drivers heh