sounds like hardware failure or massive interference make sure theres no 2.4ghz phones around
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Mark J Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > just to compare and contrast with regards to eliminating a driver-related > factor, have you tried your wireless using NDIS Wrapper > (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper>)? > > --On Sunday, September 28, 2008 3:21 PM -0500 Vikram Chhatre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> This weekend I delved in the world of wireless finally. My new Inspiron >> 1525 notebook arrived and so did the Linksys WRT54GL wireless router. >> After several long hours on freenode/slackware/dd-wrt channels, I managed >> to flash the firmware on the router to dd-wrt Version 24 stable standard >> generic. Also, the intel wireless card drive on my notebook has a driver >> built into kernel, so the module iwl4965 was already probed and running. >> I am using wicd as the wireless connection manager. >> >> The problem is, I am only rarely able to connect to the network, lets say >> 1 out of 10 attempts. The client sees the network, network sees the >> client card, but simply wont let in. No error messages. I have already >> tried doing hard reset on the router a couple of times (30:30:30 reset). >> This hasn't helped. I should mention that my wired LAN is working just >> fine. Here are more details: >> >> Client: >> --------------- >> Intel 4965 Card - driver iwl4965 built into kernel 2.6.24.5 >> wicd configuration and connection manager >> >> >> Server: >> --------------- >> >> Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router >> dd-wrt v24-stable-generic-standard Firmware >> >> Wireless Mode: AP >> Wireless network mode: Mixed (both B and G) >> Wirless ESSID: crypticlineage >> Channel: 7 @ 2.442 GHz >> SSID broadcast: Enabled >> Sensitivity range: 2000 meters >> Network configuration: Bridged >> >> Security mode: WPA Personal level 1 >> Altorithms: TKIP+AES >> WPA shared key: 63 letter hexadecimal key >> Key renewal interval 3600 seconds >> Authentication type: Auto >> >> Here is the log from /var/log/wicd/wicd.log : >> http://www.pastebin.ca/1213025 >> The tail part of the log obviously refers to the connection success. >> >> Here is the router log for IP connections. I could not make much sense >> out of it, but perhaps you guys can.: http://www.pastebin.ca/1213030 >> >> I am at least able to login, though inconsistently, from my slack12.1 >> laptop, but my roommate cannot even get the encryption key dialogue box. >> He sees the network, but can't go any further than that. Also, the >> signal for him is much weaker than it is for me. I typically get 92-100% >> signal. His is much much weaker. He gets excellent signal for other >> networks in our building. His laptop is winxp. >> >> I am pretty sure the problem is with some dd-wrt setting, but cannot >> pinpoint it seeing how inexperienced I am with the software. Later >> today, I will test my wireless card at Starbucks and at the University, >> but I dont think I will have any problem there. >> >> Thank you so much for taking time to read through all this and for any >> input you may have. >> >> Greetings, >> Vikram >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ________________________________________________________ > Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. > 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 > EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ > VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
