cfg80211 messages repeat every 120 seconds

[Chris Murphy]

I have an odd duck Internet setup that I have no control over. It's
slow and often unreliable, but I'm particularly curious about all of
these messages that stream into the journal.

http://ur1.ca/ngum5

Maybe the best part is that even gnome-session is confused about this
arrangement:

"An active wireless connection, in infrastructure mode, involves no
access point?"

Any ideas? This is not a high priority question.