Comment 68 for bug 408165

I wanted to let everyone know that thanks for someone who posted to the Ubuntu forums, I now seem to have a solution for the problem with loosing the network connection for a second or so every two minutes. The solution was to ditch gnome-network-manager and switch to using wicd ..

sudo apt-get install wicd

I found the suggestion on the Ubuntu forums at the following link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=1309517

Note that I still see the 'spam' rt_ioctl_giwscan messages in the log files but the actual network dropping seems to have been fixed.