wireless connection drops / reconnects / drops / repeat

Anyone else had this problem?

I’m running gnome 11.2 with a PCMCIA card. I configured it by searching this forum for help and using LinuxWireless project… and it worked perfectly. Yet now it has this issue where it seems like networking and wireless are disabled and then reenabled and this happens like every five minutes. It’s definately not just losing the signal, it’s almost as if network manager restarts/