Comment 0 for bug 888227

My wireless drops out quite frequently with the rt2800pci module on Ralink RT3090 wireless n card.

dmesg shows an error like this every time the wireless disassociates itself:
no probe response from AP *MAC ADDRESS* after 500ms time-out.

Once it happens the network manager applet keeps trying to reconnect but seems to never be properly disconnected or connect again. The only way to reconnect is to reload rt2800pci with modprobe.

I think this used to happen on Natty but I was able to blacklist rt2800pci and use rt2860sta instead. Now with kernel 3.x.x on Oneric rt2860sta is no longer available.

Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit)
Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic
linux-firmware v1.60