Strange deconnections of Cisco 350 series CardBus network card on new kernels
Hi,
A few days ago I installed linux-image-2.6.14-rc5 and yaird on my 
PowerBook Aluminium.  A bit later i installed udev too.  Until then I 
have successfuly used for several months a wireless card (Cisco 350 
series) with pcmcia-cs, hotplug and stuff.
Since I have installed these three programs my wireless card does not 
connect to AP.  I have tried two APs on two different networks.  I have 
tried various ifup/ifdown/iwconfig/dhclient combinations...  Sometimes 
it connects, but it deconnects 10-20 minutes later, and during this time 
ping packets are sometimes delayed up to 10 seconds.  Sometimes I cannot 
even succeed to connect it.
I suppose this is in connection with the kernel because the problems 
started *exactly* when I installed these programs.
Even if I boot with the previous kernel (2.6.12) the problem persists.
When executing iwlist it generally prints:
snoopy:~# iwlist eth2 scan
eth2      Failed to read scan data : No data available
[IIRC ethereal on eth2 shows the sent ARP packets, but no one answers to 
them.]
A cable (eth0) works ok.
I really do not understand what happened, any help will be really 
appreciated.
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My /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
  #up /etc/init.d/ntp-server start
  #down /etc/init.d/ntp-server stop
# The wifi interface (Eugen)
allow-hotplug eth2
mapping hotplug
  script grep
  map eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
  pre-up /etc/network/eugen
And my "eugen" file:
[A series of if/else to discover the right location where I am]
iwconfig $IFACE essid ... key ... commit
dhclient $IFACE
Regards,
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Eugen
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