Comments on: Welcome, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS! But what happened to ipw?

By: Sten During

Sten During — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:18:00 +0000

Running kubuntu 8.04 with backports installed, which solved the led-problem. No problems with speed, but the network shuts down (together with led) at least every ten minutes, and more often whenever I start simultaneous connections (like starting Firefox with ten+ tabs). /var/log/syslog dumps the error-message reported in several bug-threads. Opening up a new connection to the lost network (right-clicking on network manager, etc) brings me back on-line for another ten minutes or so.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:34:49 +0000

Yes, everything isn’t stable. The iwl3945 has a problem with the throughput, my adapter is limited to 110kb/s rx, sometimes my system freezes while the card is scanning… Yesterday, I went back to the older ipw3945 driver. With the old driver the wireless card runs like a pig or better like a gutsy gibbon…

By: Deuts.NET - The Heron Refused to Fly

Deuts.NET - The Heron Refused to Fly — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:46:27 +0000

[...] know there are solutions offered on how to go about this problem, just like here, here, here, here and here. But from the way I look at it, they are simply hacks and not stable [...]

By: Bernaard

Bernaard — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:06:22 +0000

Thank you for the advice, Thomas! The combination of Wicd and iwl works quite OK for me now, but it didn’t work at all with the default Network Manager!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:13:39 +0000

Hi, i ‘m thinking about switching back to ipw driver, because my wlan is very unstable and slow. It wasn’t so under gutsy. To get the wlan led work (latitude d620) i have installed the backport-hard package. After that my driver version is 1.2.25 und the led status work.

Greeting from Germany