ipw3945 on gutsy

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 03 November 2007 13:48:12 Ray wrote:
> Working on ubuntu gutsy my wireless card disconnects every 5 minutes,  a
> few weeks ago i was using Mandriva 2008 and i didn't have this problem,
> now i cant surf the web or play enemy-territory because i loss
> connection. Does anybody know this problem?

Knetworkmanager went positively psychotic on me in my gutsy install 
(preventing Konqueror from accessing the network) and I had to remove it, but 
doing an iwlist, iwconfig, and ifconfig by hand my ipw3945 card seems to work 
fine under 7.10.

The knetworkmanager bug is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/86680

It's not just broken, it's mis-designed so that it communicates its incorrect 
view of the world to other apps via dbus, so that they don't even _try_ to 
make network connections when there's a perfectly good network up and 
running.  (I.E. they added extra complexity that serves no purpose when it's 
working.  It seems to exist solely to add the possibility that it can break 
and screw things up.  I have _no_idea_ what they were thinking.)

Rob
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