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[Craig Setera <836250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe I've found another interesting aspect to this issue.  I
believe it is actually capable of forcing my Motorola Surfboard 6120
cable modem to reboot.  When using a wireless connection to do a git
repo sync with Cyanogenmod (or anything that involves a substantial
download), my cable modem will reboot every few minutes with the
following logged errors.

Cable Modem Reboot due to T4 timeout ;CM-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CMTS-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Unicast Maintenance Ranging attempted - No response - Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CMTS-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
Ranging Request Retries exhausted;CM-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CMTS-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;
No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out;CM-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CMTS-MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.0;

If I use a wired connection and disable wireless, I can do these
synchronizes without a problem on the cable modem.  Other machines on
the network don't have issues, pointing directly at this Intel wireless
problem.  What I find most interesting about this is that there is a
wireless router, switch and Linux router in the networking path within
the house.  I don't know enough about networking to understand how the
wireless driver/hardware could possibly be creating packets that flow
through the network and crater the cable modem.  Very strange indeed.

I'm pondering whether I need to re-install to roll back to 11.04 where
networking was stable.  I see that there is ongoing conversation with
the Intel wireless driver folks, but does anyone have an idea if/when
this might be fixed?

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Title:
  [Oneiric] [Regression] Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 poor
  networking, packet loss and very slow Lenovo X201 and T500 laptops

Status in The Linux Kernel:
  In Progress
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Oneiric:
  Triaged
Status in “network-manager” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This may be either network-manager or kernel, depending on triage...

  I have verified this on both a Lenovo X201 and a Lenovo T500 laptop.

  Both work perfectly with fully updated 10.10 and 11.04 versions of
  Ubuntu.

  However, booting into a fully updated 11.10 (as of 28/08/11) I get
  very poor wireless networking performance. Between 6-10% packet loss,
  very very slow connection and transfer rate. All in all, practically
  unusable.

  I have reported the bug on the X201 laptop, I will add the similar
  logs from the T500 also if required.

  As soon as I swap back to either 10.10 or 11.04 I get perfect
  wireless, it's only on 11.10 that I get problems, this would suggest
  it's not hardware or configuration on my side.

  I have had this since first installing 11.10 which was a little after
  Alpha 2.

  Wired connection is fine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: network-manager 0.9.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  Date: Sun Aug 28 21:26:05 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Gconf:
   
  IfupdownConfig:
   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
  IpRoute:
   default via 192.168.100.1 dev eth0  proto static 
   192.168.100.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.100.41
  Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
   WimaxEnabled=true
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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