Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 + Intel Pro Wireless 2915 a/b/g: "ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting."

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:59 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 11:11 -0500, fire-eyes wrote:
> >> 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> > 
> >> I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch.
> >> This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor.
> >>
> > 
> > Using the ipw220 (sony vaio), it generates a message
> > in /var/log/messages and dmesg saying the killwitch must be off for
> > wireless to work.  If the killswitch is off (wireless working), there is
> > no message in either.
> > 
> > 
> > This is with the in-kernel drivers.
> > 
> > BillK
> 
> Ahh okay, I use the external drivers.
> 
> I do have chances to test it now, as I got my wireless working again
> back home. Linksys wrt54g v5 bricked (avoid those!), or so I thought it
> did... stuck dd-wrt 23 SP 2 on it, and it's working VERY nicely...
> 
> Hopefully I won't keep having these issues, we'll see... but history
> says I will.
> 

I think the drivers are the same - just the kernel lags the sourceforge
project.  I originally used the ext ones as in-kernel didnt work for me,
but the latest kernels seem fine (though the data transfer rates seem
quite a lot slower and less sensitive?)

BillK

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