[nycwireless] sorry, trivial question - orinoco silver card won't work w/ linksys ap (no wep)

[freelance writer]

I can't figure this out - if there's a better, basic questions forum, please 
refer me.  Nutshell is I've had an Orinoco Silver card and a D-Link 650-AP 
for several years.  I almost never use the D-Link - I keep it in a spare 
laptop.  The Orinoco has worked perfectly with every stripe of AP I've 
encountered, but all of a sudden, I can't get it to work properly with a 
Linksys AP that my new roommate has connected in the place we're moving 
into.  I ditched my old AP when I left my last place.

1. WEP is not running.  Once I can get them the Linksys to function with the 
Orinoco I'll start doing some basic securing (mac filtering, wep, 
non-broadcast, etc).

2. The D-Link works in both machines, the Orinoco does not.
3.  The Orinoco software suggests a strong link
4. The Orinoco does obtain an IP, and is able to communicate with the AP to 
some degree - out of a given 50 ping attempts, roughly 12 to 16 are 
sucessful, usually in groups, usually with 10 or so timeouts between blocks.

5. I believe that there's a second Linksys box in an apartment nearby.  I 
tried using a different SSID but the problem seemed to persist, so I brought 
the AP back to factory defaults.

My apologies for the clutter.
Thanks,
Dan
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