Ever since I upgraded to ipw2100 1.1.0 and gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r? my wireless card has stopped working. It fails to obtain an ip address from dhcp, on different AP's. With ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 the problem is still present. Here is the /var/log/messages output when trying to connect using the wireless card: Jul 20 09:26:11 rat-trap ifplugd(eth1)[11771]: Executing '/usr/sbin/ifplugd.action eth1 up'. Jul 20 09:26:14 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:19 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:27 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:29 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:34 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:42 rat-trap eth1: No xmit handler. Jul 20 09:26:44 rat-trap dhcpcd[15432]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response I am using gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4, ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 and ieee80211-1.0.3. The modules are all loaded. Here's the lsmod output: Module Size Used by hci_usb 10824 0 bluetooth 45188 1 hci_usb radeon 76736 1 snd_pcm_oss 48288 0 snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 34880 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5888 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 52176 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7308 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq wbsd 14856 0 mmc_core 15236 1 wbsd yenta_socket 20488 1 rsrc_nonstatic 11328 1 yenta_socket ipw2100 137536 0 firmware_class 7936 1 ipw2100 ieee80211 37092 1 ipw2100 ieee80211_crypt 4552 2 ipw2100,ieee80211 snd_intel8x0 29760 1 snd_ac97_codec 83196 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 83140 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 21828 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 48804 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,sn d_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 7812 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm joydev 8320 0 reiserfs 230512 1 And here is the emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch" LANG="fr_CH.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bmp bonobo bzip2 calendar cdb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmx mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png postgres python quicktime readline samba sdl session spell sse ssl svg symlink tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Relevant forums post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-345167-highlight-xmit.html?sid=f0f3c4696bc67c3b4ba7c411dce63249
Please try running `module-rebuild rebuild` for re-installing external kernel modules (you may have to run `emerge -av module-rebuild` first). Then reboot to make sure all modules in question are reloaded - and check if this problem still exists.