I've been scouring this board and others for days trying to find a solution to my problem and though there are a fair number of similar posts nothing seems quite identical so I decided to start a thread.

I have a Dell 600m running Mepis 6.0 with the ipw2200 driver. Here's the deal...

When I boot up, despite my card being found and everything seeming fine, I cannot connect to the Internet for anything. The only way I can get wireless to connect is to issue the following commands as root:

ifdown eth1
ifconfig eth1 down
iwconfig eth1 channel 6 (or whatever channel happens to be broadcasting locally)
iwconfig eth1 essid any
ifconfig eth1 up
ifup eth1

At that point it connects and everything runs as normal. If I leave out any of the above steps it will not connect. I find this to be incredibly frustrating. I used to just turn the computer on and it connected to whatever network was available. Now I have to do this every time.

This happens on every installation of every distro I have tried since udev replaced hotplug. I don't know if that is it but I'm guessing there is something there.

Additionally I have noticed on running dmesg that most of the time - though I haven't seen it since I recompiled the ipw2200 driver with the Bug 808 patch - it would say eth1: NETDEV_TX_BUSY. Also not sure what that has to do with anything.

Basically I know nothing and even a few pointers or a clue would be really, really appreciated.

Thanks.

-Yerch

I am running Suse10 and had the exact same problem with an ipw2200 adapter in a Dell D610. See posting http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=ipw2200.
Everything looked like it should be working, but it wasn't. The final solution...?

Download the source code for the latest stable driver, the firmware to match, and build from source. My wireless works fine now. Just read the HowTo and follow the instructions...

Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work for me but it makes me wonder if there isn't something going on because the driver is enabled in the kernel as well as being compiled from source. I'm going to compile a fresh kernel without ipw2200 enabled and then compile the driver from source and see if that fixes it.

If not I'll just cry like a little girl.

I don't know if I can go on

I have tried ndiswrapper and fwcutter, but no internet, I did once see a signal w/ fwcutter. but no internet

sigh