Network Manager drops wireless connections

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Chris Jones wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using networkmanager for a while now, and in general have found it
> to work well. However, recently it seems to have developed a problem. When
> running a wireless connection it drops the connection every now and then. I
> can sometimes reconnect by just clicking on the desired network again, but
> sometimes I have to restart NetworkManager itself.
>
> System :-
> FC4, fully updated
> kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
> wireless is ipw2100
>
> The contents of messages, related to NetworkManager are pasted below.
>
> Does anyone else get this ? Could it be related to the firmware I am using,
> which was updated a short time ago ? - I am using the freshrpms package
> ipw2100-firmware (1.3-2). Could it instead be related to my wireless router ?

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>
> As an aside, how can I tell what version of the ipw2100 module comes with my
> kernel ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Chris
>
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