On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:12, Philip Wyett wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 15:45 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:33, Ian Harper wrote:
I has version 3 rather than 2.4 - thats sorted it - thanks
Ian
On 06/09/06, Philip Wyett philipwyett@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 12:12 +0100, Ian Harper wrote:
Has anyone else had any problems with getting wifi to work after upgrade ?
I am using ipw2200 on an HP laptop - was working under 4.3
Ian
Tony Molloy wrote
On a Dell latitude D810 with an ipw2200, yep problems with the new 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL kernel and the new 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 centosplus kernel and the new 2.4 ipw firmware installed.
An old 2.6.9-34.107.plus centosplus kernel works fine but this uses the earlier 2.2 ipw firmware.
I'm using the centosplus kernels to get firewire working but that's another matter ;-) .
The latest kernel requires you have the Intel ipw 2.4 firmware installed in '/lib/firmware/'. Have you done this?
I've installed the new 2.4 firmware. Left the old stuff there, for the old kernel, maybe that's the problem. Anyway when I boot with the new kernels the network takes a long time, 10's of seconds, to start. Then it generally works for a time, 5 to 10 minutes, then stops dead!!!
Using "dmesg | grep ipw" the wireless card is detected Ok but then there is an error
Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
Any ideas.
I'm going to have a look at this when I get home tonight.
Regards,
Tony
I do not get the error message you get via dmesg on my Sony laptop.
With regard wireless with the latest kernel over and above no signal level stats due to the bump to WE 18. I have the same connection and drop out issues. For me the connection is fine for anything web related that is not passing constant data, but if I vnc to another machine on my wireless connection, it will die after about 10 mins and require me to close and restart vnc.
Regards
Phil
Strange but that's more or less what happens to me. If I'm doing browsing then all seems OK. But if I do anything that requires a lot of throughput then the connection dies after 5 to 10 minutes. Last night for instance I booted the laptop and just ran a ping to a remote machine. Sure enough after 1983 pings the connection died!!
Funny thing is a reboot, several in fact would not bring the network back up. I had to reboot with the old 2.6.9-34.107.plus kernel to get the network back then when I rebooted with the new 2.6.9-42.0.2.plus.c4 the network was back, well for 10 minutes anyway.
Tony
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