On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:38:04 -0400, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I am having a very irritating problem with the wireless driver and card
above. Sometimes, but not all the times, it gets into this phase where
the wireless drops, comes back, drops, comes back (etc) and eventually I
start seeing this in kernel logs:
ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
Unloading and reloading the module does not stop the issue, when it has
begun. I have done some searching, and the typical advice is to make
sure hardware crypto is off, by loading it like so:
modprobe -v ipw2200 hwcrypto=0
However this never stops it, or even causes it to calm down a bit.
The most frustrating thing, is that this does not happen all the time. I
use multiple wireless networks. All of them wide open, except for one,
which was mine at home with WPA. That AP since bricked (warning: avoid
LInksys WRT54G v5's, i'm not the only one this happened to) so I can no
loner test. But when I used it, i saw the same things as I am describing
here.
Hope that you get a more useful response.... FWIW, I Had precisely these
symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is rock
sold now. I think there were two things going on:
1. This might be a "kill" switch? Some of my problems were certainly due
to the kill switch. I finally noticed that the little wireless LEDs were
off. I had turned them off while using the windows OS - given that it is
susceptable to the wonderful new driver attacks - and had failed to turn
it on when booting up hardened Linux (which I believe is NOT susectable to
the driver buffer overflows).
2. I also suggest a step by step walk-through of the following page (check
your kernel config).
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200
P.S. Contrary to their suggestion, I emerged the latest driver/firmware
from portage.
Newbie. (HTH; good luck.)
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