ipw2200 sometimes works, mostly not
I've had some trouble with setting up wireless on debian etch (Thinkpad
R51).
I copied the firmware 3.0, ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz to /lib/fimware as
described on thinkwiki.org
Now, the situation is that the wireless sometimes works and mostly not.
If I shut the wifi down and enable it again, it sometimes works.
johannes2:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
johannes2:~# echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
Sometimes it also works right after boot. It's not reproducible and also
occurs like this, if I boot to single user mode.
Usually wifi can be activated by just using the above commands for
switching the wireless on and off often enough. Once it's working, I
haven't noticed any problems so far.
I'm not sure, if this is a driver or a hardware issue.
Thanks for any hints to track this down!
Johannes
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johannes2:~# uname -a
Linux johannes2 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
johannes2:~# ll /lib/firmware/
total 580
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191142 2006-11-02 19:05 ipw2200-bss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185660 2006-11-02 19:05 ipw2200-ibss.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187836 2006-11-02 19:05 ipw2200-sniffer.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12007 2006-11-02 19:05 LICENSE.ipw2200-fw
johannes2:~# dmesg |grep ipw
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZR (14 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
johannes2:~# dhclient eth2
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/eth2/00:0e:35:10:05:58
Sending on LPF/eth2/00:0e:35:10:05:58
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
receive_packet failed on eth2: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
johannes2:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
johannes2:~# echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill
johannes2:~# dhclient eth2
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
irda0: unknown hardware address type 783
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/eth2/00:0e:35:10:05:58
Sending on LPF/eth2/00:0e:35:10:05:58
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
receive_packet failed on eth2: Network is down
DHCPOFFER from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
DHCPREQUEST on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 1800 seconds.
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