You might have a hardware problem as is evidenced by this line in dmesg: 'wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware self-test failed' (HAL status 14)'. The other flaky symptoms appear to support this hypothesis. Also, other Thinkpad users seem to be able to use their Atheros adapters without problems.
-- atheros wifi driver crashes and makes boot fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97732 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs