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  1. Bug #295414
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 295414

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Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote :

Hi again,
I can reproduce this "Firmware error detected. Restarting." on Hardy. Not suprising, as the ipw2200 firmware is the same since March 7 2006. It occurs when transfering much data. To test I receive a big file through NFS with about 29 MBit/s.

With Intrepid the error is much more frequent than with Hardy. It looks like the network stack in 2.6.27 has been further optimzed and puts more stress on the firmware. One strange observation which might help: the time between "Firmware error detected. Restarting." is always an exact multiple of 30 seconds!

I use WPA2 on a HP Compaq nx8220 with an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and my router is a Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware (based on Linux 2.4.x)