I too have been having this problem since upgrading to the May 17
release of ipw2200 driver and firmware. It will work fine for hours and
then just stop with the firware error in syslog. I am also unable to
rmmod the modules at that point.
Any suggestion how I can at least reset at that point without rebooting?
I always feel bad when I have to reboot linux for a reason like this,
and assume it is due to ignorance on my part rather than a true need.
> Hi!
>
> Currently playing around with built-in wifi card in a laptop
> (debian sarge kernel 2.6), according to lspci:
>
> Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
>
> ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.2
> ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
> ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
>
> Driver + Firmware downloaded:
>
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
>
> Got things working with WEP encryption, only downside, using scp
> I'm lucky to get about 2 MByte/sec transfered while 'iwlist'
> claims:
>
> Current Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
>
> I'd be fine with that if there wouldn't be short outages with the
> following message from time to time:
>
> ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
>
> Anyone else seen this notice? Sure the problem is related to the
> proprietary firmware crap, but the nic is built-in, so it would
> be nice to get it running without these glitches.
>
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