It seems that running without encryption does help the problem, although doesn't eliminate it.
[17179616.088000] sky2 eth0: enabling interface [17179616.968000] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [17179616.968000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [17179616.968000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [17179616.968000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [17179616.968000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver [17179701.900000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [17179750.640000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready [17179764.140000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present [17179928.828000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. [17179940.412000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready [17179952.576000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready [17179965.944000] eth1: no IPv6 routers present [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Notice the "Firmware error detected." It doesn't look like the TX_POWER thing is still there without WEP/WAP, but there is still intermittent connection dropping This log output is with lapic and irqpoll. -- ipw2200 not working: "Failed to send TX_POWER" https://launchpad.net/bugs/55532 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs