[ltp] a little ipw2200 trouble...

Laurent Gilson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:44:27 +0100


Hello

> The ipw2200 formware has bugs which make the chipset lock up.
> Scans appear to work, but scanning is flaky and no actual traffic
> ever gets in or out once this happens.

And even the module reload does not solve this ?

> If you see messages like "firmware error: restarting" in the output of
> dmesg, you may be hitting this problem.

shaw that once, but so far not together with my freze problem.

> DEV=eth1
> sudo sh -c "echo -n 3 > /sys/class/net/$DEV/device/power/state";
> sleep 1; sudo sh -c "echo -n 0 > /sys/class/net/$DEV/device/power/state";

Will do that next time. Thx a lot for pointing me to this problem.

cu