Comment 1 for bug 37821

Attached is a log of a wpa_cli session in which it logs the many many disconnects/reconnects, as well as some failed attempts at connecting, where I ended up doing one of the following:
1) click on the applet, and click on my AP's SSID to reconnect
2) close the applet, close the kde wallet, and restart the applet to reconnect
3) manually issue commands to wpa_supplicant through the client interface

All of these attempts resulted in temporary relief, until the next disconnect. Disconnects seemed random, at first it would at least stay on for about a minute, with intermittent disconnects/reconnects thereafter.
As mentioned earlier, I have had no problems other than having to manually run:
wpa_supplicant -iath0 -dmadwifi -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B -w
sudo invoke-rc.d networking restart

On every restart (Somehow I couldn't get wpasupplicant to run on boot... something wrong with the rc.d scripts). The signal strength was very good both in windows on the same machine, as well as while using wpasupplicant and the madwifi drivers before due to having a high gain antenna attached to the PC's wireless card. Perhaps the versions of these differ between those used for the network-manager package, and those previously installed.