Re: ipw2200 wireless network card stops working

[heimdal200599-news@yahoo.no]

Anton Piatek wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wondering if anyone has had problems with their ipw2200 network
> card losing connection after a while.
> It can vary between a minute and twenty before the connection stops, and
> I cannot figure out why.
>
> I don't *think* I have anything running trying to reconfigure it, and it
> still has the right ip address and routes set after it dies, I just
> cannot ping anything apart from my own NIC.
>
> I have tried a 2.6.15 and .16 kernel with the builtin iee80211 stack and
> ipw2200 drivers, and even the latest stable and testing ipw drivers (and
> new firmware and matchin ieee stack).
...

I had a similar problem when I upgraded linux-image from 2.6.11 to 
2.6.15. No sensible info in the logs, but finally I checked out the 
parameters for the ipw2200 module and tried hwcrypo=0. That made it. I 
have put it in /etc/modules:

ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 led=1

(led=1 turns on the wireless LED)

I'm using the ipw2200 and ieee80211* modules from the linux-image package.

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Oddbjørn