ipw2200 drops connections

[Glenn J. Mason]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:23:00 +0100, José Paulo Matafome Oleiro <matafomeoleiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sex, 2006-08-18 às 12:13 -0700, Gary Allen Garibaldi escreveu:
> 
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>> Gary Allen Garibaldi wrote:
>> > I've been having a problem recently with my notebook, a Toshiba
> Portege
>> > S100. Everything was working great until recently my wireless started
>> > dropping its connection. I've got Ubuntu 6.06-1 installed. Can someone
>> > please point me in the right directions. A google search only turned
> up
>> > older version of Ubuntu with the drop connection problems.
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance
>> > 
>> > Gary
>> 
>> Just wanted to do a quick follow-up on this. It seems the
>> linux-image-2.6.16-26-686 may have been the problem. Once I uninstalled
>> it and used the default 386 kernel everything returned to normal. Should
>> the problem return I'll keep the list posted.
>> 
>> Gary
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> 
> I'm using the kernel 2.6.16-26-686 with a wireless card ipw2200
> connection (Intel 2200 B/G wireless card shipped with centrino laptops)
> it's working just perfectly, never drops the connection.
> 
> --
> Sincerely
> José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org Blog do Matafome )
> Running Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper with XGL on Fujitsu-Siemens Model Amilo M
> 1420
> 
> 
-- glennji