Wifi dies about once an hour. Bug in update ?

Thu Feb 5 16:09:40 UTC 2009

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 19:48 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > My wifi dies about once an hour.  The only way I can get it working
> > again is to reboot.  Very irritating. 
> ...
> > uname -a
> > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jan
> > 21 02:09:37 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Power management has been flaky on my laptop since I updated to 
> 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.  Try booting an older kernel and see if 
> your situation is any different.

My problem was totally fixed with the installation of NetworkManager and
a few other tweaks.   My wireless connection is now rock solid.  I
couldn't be happier with it. 