Unfortunately (as nearly expected) the time frame between release and the first 
rc of the next kernel version has the majority of changes. It looks a bit like 
the problem is spread between generic code and the driver itself.
The message and the frequency it occurs sounds like the code (at least) thinks 
the link is idle. After 30s idle time it will try to check whether the AP is 
still there. Then wait for half a second and when there is no response, assume 
the connection dropped.
So one experiment would be to try have a ping running in the background and see 
whether this would stop the disconnect. That would at least prove that normal 
traffic is detected as activity.
For hopefully more insight, I compiled a kernel with debugging turned on for 
the iwlagn driver. The packages are on http://people.canonical.com/~smb/lp544254
There seem to be two debug facilities one might be turned on by "echo 0xb80a 
>/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/debug_level" (as root). I would expect output from 
this to go into dmesg. The other facility adds directories under 
/sys/kernel/debug. The definitions are a bit cryptic so I am not sure about the 
exact naming. Either net/wlan0 or iwlagn or whatever. The should be a subdir 
called debug and in that rx_statistics and tx_statistics as well as rx and 
tx_queue. Maybe output of those helps too. But I would first try to see what 
the dmesg shows with the debug_level set.

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iwlagn (i4965AGN) continually drops and reconnects to access point 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544254
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