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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm on the road connecting to various wireless access points and
>>> sometimes I'm unable to connect and I get the (try 1) (try 2) (try 3)
>>> (timed out) messages in dmesg which makes sense. =A0Other times I get a
>>> different series of messages in dmesg when I'm unable to connect which
>>> don't make sense to me. =A0The interface connects, then disconnects,
>>> then connects, then disconnects, over and over until it finally
>>> decides to fail permanently.
>>
>> Have you tried disabling power saving mode? Something like:
>>
>> iwconfig wlan0 power off
>
> I love this list. =A0I don't want to speak too soon, but Paul, it looks
> like you fixed it.

I hope so!

> I've been struggling with this for a very long
> time. =A0The problem would manifest with 2 different rt73 USB wireless
> adapters.

I had unstable connections and poor speeds on my laptop, and power
saving turned out to be the reason why. Some cards have intermediate
power-saving levels, too, which might give you a good compromise
between performance and battery life, if battery life is even a
concern.