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

[fire-eyes <sgtphou@fire-eyes.org>]

7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> Hope that you get a more useful response.... FWIW, I Had precisely these
> symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is
> rock sold now. I think there were two things going on:
> 
> 1. This might be a "kill" switch? Some of my problems were certainly due
> to the kill switch.  I finally noticed that the little wireless LEDs
> were off. I had turned them off while using the windows OS - given that
> it is susceptable to the wonderful new driver attacks - and had failed
> to turn it on when booting up hardened Linux (which I believe is NOT
> susectable to the driver buffer overflows).
> 
> 2. I also suggest a step by step walk-through of the following page
> (check your kernel config).
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200
> 
> P.S. Contrary to their suggestion, I emerged the latest driver/firmware
> from portage.

Thanks for the reply.

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.

I had not seen that wiki, i'll give it a look. I also use the drivers
from portage, the in-kernel ones are just too old and always have been.
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