Just to try to speed things up to make it go into that infinite loop of
non-connectingness, i decided to transfer 2.9GB of data from my desktop
computer to my laptop, and low and behold something so incredibly
obvious appears. Right at about 1:50 is where i started the file
transfer. Want to guess when it completed? I find it so strange that
even outside of those "message repeated" errors, i could set my watch
fairly accurately to these debug messages (well, here and there they
seem to miss a minute, but still). Granted, i don't loose connection
from services (my router, however, is complaining in it's logs) at those
times (haven't had a chance to time "talking glitches" with skype yet,
but at this point i doubt i have to). If only i knew my way around those
drivers and wireless networking hardware, i'd fix the problem myself,
however I don't.

While typing this, my connection went out again. I found that before
finishing this, though, it inevitably reconnected. So i updated the file
accordingly while typing. Anyway, if not all these messages correspond
to a single issue, solving them so that they disappear would help the
issues come into light more clearly. I originally had a theory written
here on what the problem was, but once i got enough data, i realized
that connecting all these error messages was a stretch. A new theory,
though:

There's a 6 element queue of something called "TX." The driver gets
"stuck" whenever it runs out of TX (slowly, but progressively), however
it can't free TX because something (that it can't sacrifice because data
would end up permanently lost, despite it supposedly not being lost) is
using that 6th slot. Now, it'll have a little success, but inevitably
because this queue's usage grows and can't be freed at the rate in which
it gets used up, it inevitably gets truly stuck and connection is lost
and cannot be re-established. Though, my guess is that i'm actually
totally wrong, because i'm just making a wild guess on the data, but if
all else fails, it's something to go on, because solving any of these
messages could clear them up enough to see the real problem.

The only thing i really can't explain is that i did have one good night
where nothing happened in syslog for about 8 hours or why these messages
appear so consistently.

** Attachment added: "The log's long, but i'd have to say that a good 
percentage of it is the realtek device. I started the log where i felt the 
device got loaded."
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51448412/wlan0.log

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Wireless won't work on Lenovo Thinkpad T510
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