Gnome stops wireless

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Tod Merley wrote:

> On 7/23/06, dpet <activecs at activ8.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>> I cant think where to look for this problem. Perhaps someone can help
>> me.
>>        If I run kernel  2.6.16-1.2133 my ipw2200  wireless works well.
>> If I use a newer kernel (such as 2133  or 2157) it works fine in level 3
>> text mode, but starting Gnome causes it to stop after a few  seconds or
>> a couple of minutes. I can't restart it except by rebooting. I don't
>> know why something can be so variable, and don't know where to go from
>> here.  As far as I can see, no logs tell me anything. Output from
>> ifconfig and iwconfig seem to be the same before and after this occurs.
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> 
>> DP
>> Adelaide South Australia
>> 
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>
> Hi DP!
>
> If you are useing ndiswrapper and you have not established a 16k stack in
> your kernel the wireless use of the stack plus gnomes use of the stack may
> well blow your current 4k stack.
>
> A thought.

ipw2200 doesn't require ndiswrapper.  If it works in runlevel 3, then he 
has the right firmware (check ipw2200-firmware-3.0-1.lvn5 from Livna, 
though).

Take a look at http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux too.

>
> Good hunting!
>
> Tod
>

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