the new 1833 kernel and ipw2200 connectivity.

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

I installed the 1833 kernel that was supposed to help with ipw2200
connectivity. I was disappointed. It is not much worse then 1831 but for it to
work at all you need the line: options ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 
in the /etc/modprobe.conf . This line caused connection to fail every
time with the 1831 kernel, And neither work as well as the:
2.6.11-1.1369 kernel that came on the CD.

Here is what happens. After a boot, when I execute: ifup eth1 there is
a long wait with:
Determining IP information for eth1 ...
on the screen and then the message:
PING 192.168.1.254 from 192.168.1 eth1: 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics
4 packets transmitted, 1 received, 75% packet loss, time 3014 ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.213/6.213/6.213/0.00 ms, pipe 2
done

This is actually atypical. Usually it does not connect the first time
I try after a reboot. All the packets are lost.

In any case , the next time while still booted I do a:
ifdown eth1 followed by a ifup  eth0, it connects immediately.

Does anyone have better or at least different results.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: (210)-999-7484