Intel Wireless fatal error

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

I upgraded my trusty Thinkpad to T30 to 10.0 and now most rough edges
have been sorted out.

Yesterday I connected it via WiFi, connected remotely to it, then went
to bed. Today I see the connection dropped and a green message on the
console.
Ifconfig says network down.


dmesg | grep iwi0
[     1.005536] iwi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: Intel PRO/Wireless LAN
2200BG Mini-PCI Adapter (rev. 0x05)
[     1.005536] iwi0: interrupting at irq 11
[     1.005536] iwi0: 802.11 address 00:16:6f:0c:0f:59
[  3574.054462] iwi0: autoconfiguration error: fatal error

what autoconfiguration failed after it was running for a while? if those
are directly seconds it would be after 1h.

This issue happened on 9.3 too, sometimes - but I never checked
console/dmesg and related things.

Riccardo