Yes, I did.
However, it doesn't seem to handle WPA, only WEP.
Can someone confirm this?
Does it work with wpa_supplicant?
Does it depend on any particular KDE services?
I've been having a good luck with the wpa-gui which scans and links with all access points properly.
Thanks.

Ok, good news.
At least on my Tecra M2, the udev is not slowing it down as much as I thought originally.
It does add a few seconds to the boot but it's not bad.
I blacklisted the ipw2200 module and that speeded up the whole boot process.
It no longer hangs for almost a minute.
So I have the module blacklisted now.
Since at home I usually use wired connection.
And when out in the field I need to access different AP's so having the wireless disabled at boot makes sense for me.
And when I need wireless I just start it manually with a script that loads the module and then runs rc.inet1 restart.
Seems to work well.
If I have any further new info I'll post.
Sorry for spamming this thread so much all at once.

Hello guys. Actually, I would really like to see a "real" solution to this matter. I also have boot process on my lapotp hanging up for more than a minute. disabling etho in rc.inet1.conf helps for 100% (i've already discoverd this my self earlier), but for me, this is not enough. we have a wifi network in the house which is fine, but my wife often takes our laptop to her parents house and they only have wired connection. i really can't ask my wife to regulary fire up vim, edit configuration files and restart network, all done as root

i had a reversed issue with slackware 11, it hanged up when no wireless connection could be made. back then i've solved this through altering the startup script that called rc.inet1 by adding ampersand to the end.

any help would be appreciated

The "powersaving" governor merely keeps the cpu at the lowest possible frequency. "ondemand" keeps it there when the computer is doing little or nothing. So there is no reason to switch to "powersaving" from "ondemand".

Brian

Yes, me too. I'm thinking about experimenting with some older network packages to see if there's any difference.