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