7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Hope that you get a more useful response.... FWIW, I Had precisely these > symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is > rock sold now. I think there were two things going on: > > 1. This might be a "kill" switch? Some of my problems were certainly due > to the kill switch. I finally noticed that the little wireless LEDs > were off. I had turned them off while using the windows OS - given that > it is susceptable to the wonderful new driver attacks - and had failed > to turn it on when booting up hardened Linux (which I believe is NOT > susectable to the driver buffer overflows). > > 2. I also suggest a step by step walk-through of the following page > (check your kernel config). > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200 > > P.S. Contrary to their suggestion, I emerged the latest driver/firmware > from portage.
Thanks for the reply. I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch. This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor. I had not seen that wiki, i'll give it a look. I also use the drivers from portage, the in-kernel ones are just too old and always have been. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
