Re: poor wireless sensitivity after installation of fc5 on an ibm x40 laptop

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, David Perkinson wrote:

Hi Ronald,

Thanks for your suggestion. The version I had installed was 3.0.2. Just to make sure, I removed it and used the rpm you suggested. After installation, my /lib/firmware looked like this:

ipw2200-2.4-LICENSE ipw2200-sniffer.fw ipw-2.4-ibss.fw ipw2200-3.0-LICENSE ipw-2.4-boot.fw ipw-2.4-ibss_ucode.fw
ipw2200-bss.fw               ipw-2.4-bss.fw              ipw-2.4-sniffer.fw
ipw2200-ibss.fw              ipw-2.4-bss_ucode.fw  ipw-2.4-sniffer_ucode.fw

After rmmod ipw2200 and modprobe ipw2200, there was no increase in sensitivity (e.g., I cannot communicate with wireless in the room adjacent to the router, whereas previously I was able to communicate not only in adjacent rooms but from much further distances).

So I have reverted to 3.0.2 and the problem remains.

Latest kernel? The driver is tied to the firmware, so if you are still using a driver version that requires firmware 2.4, having 3.0 won't help.

Also, there are later releases of the driver now than are in any FC kernel. See http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2-ipw2200.shtml for instructions on updating the driver in place.


David

Ronald Warsow wrote:
hi David

firware has changed to V. 3x

livna:

ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5.noarch.rpm

ronald








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