Comment 47 for bug 352150

I have an ipw2200 too and the disconnections disappeared since I use WPA2. Before I had a router with WEP only. The new router runs with the Linux-based open-source firmware Tomato. I don't know if WPA2 or the firmware fixed it. Testing WPA2 is not a big effort, but the reporter of this bug wrote that he is affected using WPA2.

It's not completely solved for me, but disconnections are very rare now. My investigations of this bug let me think that it's a kind of buffer overflow in the firmware or driver for ipw2200 adapters (or similar). The more data I sent or received, the more often it got disconnected (try "cp /mnt/nfs-server/bigfile /dev/null"!). Switching speed did not help. I think a high relation of "currently used bandwidth" against "theoretical maximum" is what triggers this bug.