Comment 9 for bug 267089

I started having exactly the same problem yesterday when updating to intrepid. But what I did indeed at the same time was; switching from madwifi-ng to ath9k in the 2.6.27.4 kernel that I had built myself. Then I checked and also 2.6.27.3 and 2.6.27 have the same problem. Generally it even came down to my disks having problems (I guess because of crashing DMA and whatnot); and was very repeatable. Every time I rebooted I got the same problem after using my computer for 5 minutes or less. Now I booted in 2.6.27.4 without ath9k but with ath_pci (madwifi) and everything works fine again.

Now I would mostly like to switch away from madwifi-ng as soon as possible since it's pretty buggy itself too. The network drops out (stalls, I have to manually disconnect and reconnect) after a while.