I observed the same problem originally reported. Since I upgraded to Jaunty (4 March 2009) the problem has gone away.
<pre> # lspci |grep 802.11 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) </pre> -- WLAN connection activation is too slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247381 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs