more circumstantial evidence this morning of a link between the sytems; I started AcerAspire5100 at 06:42:05. It finished all its ordinary messages in syslog/kern.log by 06:42:21 (last messages from rtkit-daemon about supervised threads) but no wireless connection. After a minute or so I woke the netbook from sleep (sorry I didn't notice the exact time) but after the netbook's usual delay connecting, within a few seconds AcerAspire5100 had kern.log messages at 06:45:33 saying wlan0: direct probe to [MAC address], two sets of three tries and timeouts, and then authenticate with the AP at 06:45:57.
The netbook has a Broadcom 4313 wireless chip, if that matters.
more circumstantial evidence this morning of a link between the sytems; I started AcerAspire5100 at 06:42:05. It finished all its ordinary messages in syslog/kern.log by 06:42:21 (last messages from rtkit-daemon about supervised threads) but no wireless connection. After a minute or so I woke the netbook from sleep (sorry I didn't notice the exact time) but after the netbook's usual delay connecting, within a few seconds AcerAspire5100 had kern.log messages at 06:45:33 saying wlan0: direct probe to [MAC address], two sets of three tries and timeouts, and then authenticate with the AP at 06:45:57.
The netbook has a Broadcom 4313 wireless chip, if that matters.