ipw2200 on vaio vgn-b1xp

[Upayavira]

Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm investigating why my centrino laptop is not able to bring up wireless at 
> boot time. I'm using Breezy.
> 
> When the boot process ends I have a dhcp lease: a new and right one. So the 
> wireless card was working during the boot phase.
> But when login and type ifconfig my network card does not have an IP.
> Moreover there is (sometimes) a dhcp client waiting...
> If I ifdown ad ifup the interface it (sometimes after some ifdown ad ifup 
> cycle) works.
> 
> I'm trying to debug this, but it is really hard to understand!
> 
> Thank you for your help.

Probably not an immediate help, but I occasionally get my ipw2200 card
failing. As root: rmmod ipw2200; modprobe ipw2200 usually fixes it.

Regards, Upayavira