No cordless phones in the house. Yes, the microwave is on, but its at least 30 feet away and blocked by 4 walls.
I am reverting back to Linksys firmware to see if that gives me a connection everytime. Thanks guys Vikram On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good point about the interference -- is your microwave on?? ;-) > > Wayne > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 2:26 PM, ware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
