On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:33 +0100, Bjorge Solli wrote: > Hi Dan and others, > > we see a problem with intel wireless cards on our Fedora 9 with 2.6.26 > kernel. > > The problem exists (it seems) only on our high end wireless routers, not > on cheap home access points. I have seen it on both a and g networks, on > two different brands of routers (both cisco). > > The router receives the first request for connection, but it gives up > replying after 10 tries. This results in no connection when the wireless > card times out. > > We are able to "solve" this in these ways: > - restart NetworkManager service many times until it works. > - revert to 2.6.25 kernel > > We have seen the same on Ubuntu. > > We first thought it was due to bad firmware, but we have produced the > same results with all fw we could get our hands on. > > It seems to me that this is not a bug in NM, but in the kernel, and that > NM sometimes does "The Right Thing" to make it work, and other times > not. I'm guessing it's a kernel issue, but want your advice on this topic. > > Regards > Bjørge Solli > Univ. of Bergen, Norway I am a little confused. I have an ipw2200 card, which I think is an intel card. I am using the 2.6.26.6-79 kernel and networking works What card is giving you problems? -- ======================================================================= The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization (for experts only!): Don't do it yet. -- Michael Jackson ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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