[ltp] ipw2200 / wpasupplicant lockups

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Adrian Bastholm wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm experiencing strange behaviour with ipw2200: when i download files which 
> are big enough to take some time to download (~~25mb)  I  get disconnected 
> according to the gnome wifi applet. Sometimes it reconnects in a second, some 
> other times everything freezes. I also experience the freeze when i "killall 
> wpa_supplicant" without unloading the module.
> I have these problems on a R50e with Debian unstable (unstable may be a hint) 
> and a Debian packaged kernel-2.6.18-4-686.

The ipw2200 firmware is crap andwill die under load, or even if it sees 
certain data patterns (I have an SQL query to a remote server which usually 
kills it).

http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=875#c10

has details on how to revive it.