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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:30 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