[ltp] ipw2200 / wpasupplicant lockups

[Bert Haskins]

fire-eyes wrote:

> Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=697 too but be patient, 
> very slow host. 

FWIW I use several ipw2200 internal wireless cards in several different 
TP A series boxes
running FC6 and edgy and don't have any problems.
I have downloaded full cd isos without error.