On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:36, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I installed the 1833 kernel that was supposed to help with ipw2200 > connectivity. I was disappointed. It is not much worse then 1831 but for it > to work at all you need the line: options ipw2200 hwcrypto=0 > in the /etc/modprobe.conf . This line caused connection to fail every > time with the 1831 kernel, And neither work as well as the: > 2.6.11-1.1369 kernel that came on the CD. > > Here is what happens. After a boot, when I execute: ifup eth1 there is > a long wait with: > Determining IP information for eth1 ... > on the screen and then the message: > PING 192.168.1.254 from 192.168.1 eth1: 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics > 4 packets transmitted, 1 received, 75% packet loss, time 3014 ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.213/6.213/6.213/0.00 ms, pipe 2 > done Have you tried going back to dhclient-3.0.2-30.FC4? I hit the same issues you had before I went tried 1833. Going back to the older dhclient made them go away. > > This is actually atypical. Usually it does not connect the first time > I try after a reboot. All the packets are lost. > > In any case , the next time while still booted I do a: > ifdown eth1 followed by a ifup eth0, it connects immediately. > > Does anyone have better or at least different results. > -- > > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 -- Life would be much easier if I had the source code. - unknown pgp(gpg) C09166DA2BFEBF88 (0x2BFEBF88)
