Comment 3 for bug 616947

Consider this a "me too". I have a Lenovo R61, circa 2008. My symptoms are exactly as described by Xiao Ke, even including the capslock panel blinking.

Wireless hardware info as follows:

       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5212 802.11abg NIC
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1f:3a:4d:32:af
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
       resources: irq:17 memory:df2f0000-df2fffff