ipw2200 + Laptop + Hoary = Mess?

[Darryl Clarke]

On 5/27/05, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed the 1.04 drivers just the other day with out a problem on
> my hoary system.  make sure you have the kernel-headers package
> installed.
> 
> Also for what its worth, the 1.04 drivers with WEP worked like crap on
> my system.  I kept getting "ipw2200: Firmware error detected.
> Restarting." errors in my syslog, and the network could just
> continuously come on and off line.

That firmware error is just bad wording for "signal lost".

I was trying to figure out my issues with 1.0.2 with that error coming
up a lot, turns out i just had to move my WAP to a better location.

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