Sure way to kill Wireless Connection

Hello,
while debugging my problems with loosing my wireless connection I found out a sure way to kill it: Just start a program like ethereal for the ethernet in promiscuous mode. Kills my wireless connection for sure and only a reboot helps.
Has anyone seen this problem as well?
-b

You are talking nonsense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS

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0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
root@laptop ~ $ rfkill event unblock phy0
1298671843.804446: idx 0 type 1 op 0 soft 0 hard 1
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Thank you for your tips lamegaptop. I already have linux-firmware installed and I'm using the supported kernel module for the card (it's a PCI one):
06:01.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g (rev 01)
Loaded modules for it:
rt2500pci 12420 0
rt2x00pci 3890 1 rt2500pci
rt2x00lib 24866 2 rt2500pci,rt2x00pci
mac80211 178404 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
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eeprom_93cx6 1004 1 rt2500pci
Rfkill is installed too, the output I posted in the first post belongs to the commands I entered in the Arch system. In Fedora rfkill always reports both blocks to be off.
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$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
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lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
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$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:264 (264.0 b) TX bytes:264 (264.0 b)
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:264 (264.0 b) TX bytes:264 (264.0 b)
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
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hi
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"Frequently (like right now) I have someone catching a ride on my wireless connection."
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