Ralph Shumaker wrote:
What can I do about this error message?
ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
I just now freshly installed Fedora 9 onto a laptop for someone.
It concerns me that dmesg is getting a repeating message approximately 6
times each minute. The message appeared 54 times over 10 minutes, then
68 times over the next 10 minutes, and most recently 59 times over the
final 10 minutes. So it is not consistent with precision, but generally.
The ipw2200 messages have 4 lines before all the incessant repeats:
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZA (11.802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
And *now* when I run 'dmesg | grep -i "ipw" | grep -v "Failed to send ",
I also get 6 of these messages:
ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
The 6 lines are interspersed among the 539 lines of the "Failed to send
" message, tho in a very inconsistent manner.
First appears the 4 ipw2200 lines about the interface.
Then come about 426 of "Failed to send" followed by 1 line of "Restarting".
Then come about 124 of "Failed to send" followed by 2 lines of
"Restarting".
Then 1 and 1.
Then 1 and 2.
Then 76 and 1.
Then 1 and 2.
Then 2 and 1.
Then 1 and 1.
Then 18 and 1.
Then 1 and 3.
Then 15 and 4.
Then 1 and 1.
Then 8.
Very inconsistent.
I don't know what to do about the laptop wireless interface beyond this
point.
I'm considering pulling my dsl ethernet line from my PC to plug into the
laptop eth0 to verify that it can access the internet that way. But if
the laptop owner has a wireless AP, he should be able to go that way.
With these 2 error messages repeating this way, something is obviously
amiss, and I have *zero* experience in wireless troubleshooting.
I don't have a wireless AP here. The wireless on the laptop is eth1.
It also has eth0, which I'm sure is the ethernet plug in the back.
You need to download and install firmware for the IPW2200 from here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php or
directly from Intel's site.
Also make sure you have wpa_supplicant installed (which should be in the
default installation).
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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