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4<LinuxNIT> clsox, boot into .17 and check this
* saad3000 (n=error@194.146.155.82) ha entrado en #elive
<saad3000> hello
<LinuxNIT> lsmod | grep ipw

# lsmod | grep ipw
ipw2200                93180  0 
ieee80211              29256  1 ipw2200
firmware_class          9696  2 pcmcia,ipw220

<LinuxNIT> clsox, if it is loaded then do this.
<LinuxNIT> modprobe -r ipw2200

# modprobe -r ipw2200
nothing happens

<LinuxNIT> modprobe  ipw2200

# modprobe ipw2200
nothing happens

<LinuxNIT> see what the errors are
<LinuxNIT> clsox, if it is not loaded then  search /var/log/syslog.0 
and /var/log/syslog for ipw errors

Sep 28 00:22:32 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
Sep 28 00:22:33 localhost dhclient: sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Sep 28 00:22:33 localhost dhclient: eth2: unknown hardware address type 24
Sep 28 01:48:43 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
Sep 28 01:53:48 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
Sep 28 02:04:28 localhost kernel: ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40
same errors