[Debian-eeepc-devel] Wireless abrubtly stopped working on 1000

[Robert J. Macomber]

This morning the wireless on my Eee abruptly stopped being able to
connect to my access point.  It can still see the local set of access
points, but when I try to connect with it, the connection fails and
kern.log receives a periodic "RTMPCancelTimer failed, Timer hasn't
been initialize!" message.

This literally happened "abruptly"; it had connected perfectly fine as
usual, but in the middle of an apt-get download it disconnected and
hasn't been able to reconnect since.  I've tried down- and upgrading
the kernel (its default version is the standard Debian 2.6.30-2) based
on half-hopes from googling for the error message, and also tried the
firmware-ralink package from Sid, but nothing changes.

Does anyone have any idea what could cause this, or ideas about ways
to investigate further?
-- 
Robert Macomber