Comment 4 for bug 573432

This might be helpful. After screwing around with the network settings all day between the two setups, I noticed that the frequency setting is different on the network card on the different boots. "iwconfig" shows this on the Jaunty boot (which works):

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Goesh" Nickname:"HERMES I"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:60:B3:CD:DA:EE
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
          Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=23/92 Signal level=-74 dBm Noise level=-97 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:154 Rx invalid frag:419
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The "iwconfig" for when it doesn't work looks like this:

eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/0
          Retry limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-122 dBm Noise level=-122 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:1
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I attempted to change the freq or channel, but was told the device was busy. The network was not connected to anything. I tried shutting it down (ifconfig eth1 down), but was still unable to change the frequency. Any ideas? Might this be the problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!