Intel 2200bg problem Ubuntu 9.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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wicd |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is more a heads-up re. problems with Ubuntu 9.x and the Intel 2200bg wireless hardware.
I have battled on & off for weeks trying to get the Ubuntu 9.10 & 2200bg combination to work. Problems have been reported widely since 9.x. It worked out of the box with 8.x as far as I can remember. I moved to wicd (std. Ubuntu repository version 1.6.2) & later to 1.7. I preferred wicd so stuck with it.
I have seen countless reports of these problems with a variety of "this works for me" solutions. Using "hwcrypto=0" in /etc/modprobe.
Just to add to the many tales associated with this wireless card, the "this works for me" solution was to force a fixed IP at the router end (ie MAC address based). How this can possibly be the solution is beyond me. And I only did it to be tidy.
I tried Puppy Linux 4.3.1 and Mepis 8.0 Live CDs and neither connected wirelessly out of the box either.