Is it good list etiquette to post the final solution to old inquiries? If so.. here goes...
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:55:01AM +1100, Ben de Luca wrote: > > On 23/02/2005, at 11:31 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:16:44PM +1100, David wrote: > >>I'm running a netgear wg511t pcmcia card on Ubuntu Warty and a netgear > >>wireless router (recently purchased, can't recall model number). > >> > >>It's worked perfectly for about 4/5 weeks, until suddenly it became > >>intermittent, then died completely. At first I thought it was a config > >>problem, given I know very little about wireless, but I hadn't changed > >>anything so that didn't seem likely. ifconfig output looks perfectly > >>normal with ath0 configured at the correct ip etc. > >> > >>I powercycled the router (twice), but that made no difference. I'd > >>just > >>about given up when I took my laptop home and discovered it was > >>picking up > >>a signal from somebodies elses router! From this I assume that the > >>problem > >>is my router. > >> > >>How can i tell? What simple tests can i perform to convince the nice > >>man > >>at the shop that it's not Linux causing the problem but his ugly > >>router? > > > >Before you tell the man his router is stuffed, try changing the > >channel on > >your AP. It could be that the bloke next door has an AP on the same > >channel > >and it's swamping yours (although you'll be pleased to know that you're > >probably stuffing him up as well). > > > >Once that's done and no improvement has been found, take the AP back > >and > >tell them that it's stuffed. If they're *really* picky about it, take > >your > >lapdog and accouterements to the store and show that the lapdog works > >fine > >on another AP, then get your money back and cross that store off your > >christmas card list. > I phoned the nice man at the computer shop who gave me the phone number for Netgear support, who in turn failed to tell me that the old firmware was UFFS [1], but did suggest that I upgrade to the latest version. Although he gave me completely inaccurate upgrade directions, I knew enough to ignore what he told me, after which the new firmware completely solved the problem. The problem had nothing to do with Linux. [1] Un-Fit For Sale -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
