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fedex1993

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 21

ipw2200 intel wireless problem

Okay i got everything working pretty well with netcfg and ipw2200 drive ecept one thing. If there is not network activity on the wireless card then it goes to sleep. Then once i go to google.com it takes forever ot load up because the card has to start up again. The hole time it stays connected but it seems like the card goes to sleep. Has anyone else had this problem before?

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: ipw2200 intel wireless problem

I use ipw2200 and I don't have this problem.  Maybe it's the card.  My card is an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG.  What card do you have?

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: ipw2200 intel wireless problem

Have the same card

02:06.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)

and runs perfectly here, never had any problem with linux. I also use netcfg2 ... Do you have some kind of powersaving enabled? What does

iwconfig

show?

Denacke

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Re: ipw2200 intel wireless problem

02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection (rev 05)

Runs fine here, I had some issues some weeks ago which caused my wireless to drop under heavy load. That seems to have fixed itself (might be due to installing wicd-svn from aur)

lateralus

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 29

Re: ipw2200 intel wireless problem

Read man page for iwconfig. There is a parameter called "power" which manages powersaving features. AFAIK iwconfig ethX power off should get rid of powersaving feature.

Last edited by lateralus (2008-10-09 18:24:51)