Daniel Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version > 1.0.3 but ever since upgrading the kernel to 2.6.12 (vanilla or debian > version doesn't matter) and driver version 1.0.6 or above I can't seem > to keep my connection up and running. > > I've [1]documented my issues in comments 2,3,4, so I wont get in to > all the details here. But I'm wondering though if I'm the only one > with these kinds of issues? I'm using sarge on an IBM T42 laptop with > a built-in "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)" card. 128 > bit WEP encryption is in use, and I'm the only user on the network > (it's my home setup). My access point is an Linksys WAP54G, with the > latest FW (3.0.3). > > Any thoughts or experiences welcome... > > Thanks > Daniel > > [1] http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=807#c2
Hi Daniel- Basically the same problems. I went to the latest firmware and a few different ipw2200 drivers for my dell inspiron 4100. I could not maintain a wireless connection whatsoever even if the laptop was only 3 feet away from the linksys WRT54G. The other thing that was kinda frustrating is I could not get wavemon to work at all with the later drivers. Just to ensure I had not fubar'ed the entire thing, I installed linuxant support for the WPC54G pcmcia card and it works pretty well. But after messing around with the later drivers it became very difficult to go back to the stable drivers and I could not get a clean compile of the older drivers. I did not research that problem too much since I got frustrated with the quality and went to the linuxant drivers instead. My WRT runs the latest beta code from one of the contributos at hyperwrt.org but things work very nicely on a variety of wireless systems including my daughters XP home box and my work XP laptop. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
