Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 209392
ipw2200 non-functional on Thinkpad T43p
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:45 EST
Description of problem: Although the driver assosciates properly before the interface is brought up, upon "ifup" the ipw2200 link goes down and the device becomes totally non-functional. Even rmmod'ing the ipw2200 driver and reloading it does not bring the link back. Only a full reboot gets the link back, but it again dies as soon as one tries to ifup the ipw2200 interface. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2.ifup eth1 3. Actual results: ipw2200 device wedges Expected results: ipw2200 interface comes up properly Additional info: I am using the current firmware from Intel's ipw2200 sourceforge site. This problem has been happening ever since FC6 post-Test3 rawhide became installable on this laptop. I do remember FC6 test1 and test2 working with the wireless interface on this system.
There was one strange message in the kernel logs when the ipw2200 device tries to come up, from the ieee80211 stack: eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via ieee_device->is_queue_full. I notice that this debugging message has been removed from the current ieee80211 stack sources in Linus's GIT tree.
Does it work if you change the ESSID by adding a space on the end? So for example, ESSID="davem" becomes ESSID="davem "
I finally was able to get an install on my laptop using rawhide to start playing this again, and the problem has gone away. My wireless works fine. I wonder if I had a broken 3.0 firmware image.