Chris Ridd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This Thinkpad has an ipw wireless interface. My wireless basestation's 
> about 10 feet away, and because WPA2 isn't supported yet I'm just using 
> MAC address filtering to "secure" the connection. I'm using nwam on OS 
> build 93.
> 
> The problem is, the interface keeps dropping and then a couple of 
> seconds later coming back up again:
> 
>> Jul 17 18:59:36 shrek ipw: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: ipw0: ipw: 
>> RADIO is OFF
>> Jul 17 18:59:36 shrek last message repeated 1 time
>> Jul 17 18:59:36 shrek mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: ipw0 link down
>> Jul 17 18:59:40 shrek ipw: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: ipw0: ipw: 
>> RADIO is OFF
>> Jul 17 18:59:40 shrek mac: [ID 744254 kern.info] NOTICE: ipw0 link up
>> Jul 17 18:59:40 shrek in.routed[447]: [ID 749644 daemon.notice] ipw0 has a 
>> bad address 0.0.0.0
> 
> This is murder when trying to download something reasonably big, like an 
>   OS image-update :-(
> 
> A Mac laptop in the same location can keep the connection up pretty much 
> for ever; this behaviour seems peculiar to OS.
> 
> Is this a known problem, and is there anything I can do to fix it?

Is there a better list for this sort of question?

Cheers,

Chris
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