I'm not sure how helpful this will be but I finally solved this by ditching my AP.
I noticed that very often the AP (A D-LINK DWL-2000AP+) would often crash when I lost the connection. I didn't spot it at first because I was so busy looking at the laptop and trying to fix things there. I realised I could reliably cause the AP to crash and require hard-reboot simply by initiating a couple of large file transfers to the laptop. Most of the time it would be ok except when traffic was heavy. So I er, bought another AP! I've got a Netgear WG602v4 and it's working very nicely with no change in config on the laptop. I've made a few rough notes at http://theaccidentalarborist.blogspot.com/2009/09/wireless-networking.html Dougie -- ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352150 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