Bug 157498

Summary:	after some time lost of ARP address using IPW2200 on thinkpad T42
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jean-francois Lafaye <lafaye_jef>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Jean-francois Lafaye 2006-03-12 21:27:26 UTC

Hi, i have in the past some troubles with IPW2200 on a thinkpad T42 with suse 9.2 after the upgrade to suse 10.0 the problem is still there...

At boot the wireless network work fine but after some time it lose the mac address of the router and sometime after entering multiples : route, arp, ping , traceroute it retrieve it ... without stopping and restarting network, sometine not ...

Searching on internet i found that it's a known problem : http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_PRO/Wireless_2200BG_Mini-PCI_Adapter

Note: The ipw2200 driver up to version 1.0.6 (in combination with some newer kernels) had a problem getting DHCP leases (it turned out to be a bug in the broadcasting code). Version 1.0.7 seems to have fixed this.

I look in yast and see that suse 10.0 come with ipw2200 1.0.6, i tried to get the latest version of ipw2200 but had troubles to install it with iee* modules because suse have make a différent design in /usr/src ... i have reinstalled the  10.0 kernel to repair ...
is it possible to have a more recent version of ipw2200 with YOU as standard update ? 
Regards

Comment 1 Joachim Gleissner 2006-03-22 16:19:52 UTC

I don't think the problem you are seeing here is one described in that URL. In fact in 10.0 we already had the dhcp-lease fix applied. Is there anything in /var/log/messages after the problem popped up? Have you done something special before (e.g., suspend)?

Comment 2 Jean-francois Lafaye 2006-03-22 22:47:15 UTC

Hi,i had the case this evening, after a few hours of usage the network stop responding and if i enter the arp command i get : 
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
netopia                          (incomplete)                              eth1
idefix:~ #
if i try a route command it take time. 
A ping to an internet host dont respond :
idefix:~ # ping www.google.ch
PING www.l.google.com (66.249.93.104) 56(84) bytes of data.




From 10.0.0.20: icmp_seq=12 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.0.0.20 icmp_seq=12 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.0.0.20 icmp_seq=13 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.0.0.20 icmp_seq=14 Destination Host Unreachable

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 13016ms

after sometime and some arp, route, ping, traceroute the network come back.

idefix:~ # arp
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask            Iface
netopia                  ether   00:00:C5:B6:40:EC   C                     eth1

Working with windows XP on the same pc with the same wifi lan i dont have the problem, that's why i suspect the driver.

I dont use suspend and i get no error messages in logs
Regards

Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2006-03-30 12:49:28 UTC

Are you using NetworkManager?

Comment 4 Stefan Behlert 2006-07-03 12:39:55 UTC

Since no activity was seen on this bug since three months I assume the problem is fixed. Please reopen if it still remains.