[ltp] Thinkpad T43: wireless keeps dropping, firmware error

[Jiang Qian]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:53:50PM -0400, fire-eyes wrote:
> I am using an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop. It has an Intel Pro Wireless 
> 2915 abg wireless card in it. This uses the ipw2200 driver.
> 
> Most of the time when I use wireless, it is solid. However every few days or 
> weeks (there seems to be no pattern), I run into a day where 6 - 20 times in 
> that given day, the wireless just plain drops. I have to unload the modules, 
> reload them, restart the network interface, etc etc.
> 
> This is one of those days. In logs I see:
> 
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
> 
> This situation is extremely annoying. I have posted on lists before, but I 
> have never found any solution to this.
> 
> Any ideas?
Just a thought. What does this command give you?
cat /sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/hwcrypto
If it say 1, try do
echo 0 > /sys/module/ipw2200/parameters/hwcrypto
however I thought 1.1.2 fixed this issue.
Jiang
> 
>  [ Gentoo Specific information ]
> 
> lappie ~ # equery l ieee80211
> [ Searching for package 'ieee80211' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.13-r1 (0)
> 
> lappie ~ # equery l ipw2200
> [ Searching for package 'ipw2200' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] net-wireless/ipw2200-1.1.2-r1 (0)
> [I--] [  ] net-wireless/ipw2200-firmware-3.0 (0)
> 
> 
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