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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
