Return the card & get a different brand.
A friend of mine just got a Linksys card & hub. She couldn't get it working, so she asked my help. She ended up getting another brand card & is working fine. Once you get wireless, you'll miss it elsewhere. I can't imagine a laptop without it. For the details: She brought her laptop over & tried it with my addtron hub. Worked, but it didn't listen for the DHCP server. It just grabbed an address. I brought my laptop (addtron card) over to her place & got an address off her hub. I also had the card from my wife's laptop (compaq) and got that working. So, we loaded the drivers on her laptop & got the compaq card working. I installed drivers on my laptop & got her card working on my machine. I tried reinstalling her drivers for the linksys card too. Still didn't work. Even got the updated drivers off the web site. So, she returned the card, got a different brand, & everything's working. Yep, the linksys card should've worked, but why spend another minute on it when you have a solution that works? FWIW, I like the compaq card better then the addtron. It works with Netstumbler. The addtron works with kismet though. I should mention that all this testing was done using WinXP :-/ OB unix: ok, my DHCP server is NetBSD OB Linux: my laptop is dual boot. I usually run Mandrake 8.2. WinXP boots faster though :-( Paul Iadonisi said: > *sigh* > > I've avoided getting any wireless hardware for various reasons. Now >I'm in a situation where my life is much easier if I dive in. > Well, I'm part way there. I've at least got a wireless card that >works with the access point (whatever it is) that I need it to. But >having a piece of hardware that only works for me six to eight hours a >day at a specific location just doesn't sit right with me, so I decided >to get an access point for home. That's when my pain started. > After struggling for hours to get a Linksys WPC11v3 and a Linksys >WAPv2.2 to talk to each other, I stumbled across several comments on >several mailing lists that indicate that these two devices are not >compatible with each other. That's right, same vendor and they won't >talk. Surprised? I didn't think so. According to a few postings I >saw, Linksys is aware of the problem and recommends buying an older >version of either the card or the WAP. The thing that rankles me is >that at least one of those messages was posted in January, indicating >that the problem has existed for at least seven months without a >resolution. > So I exchanged the WAPv2.2 for a WMP11 PCI wireless card hoping to use >it as an access point in my desktop with the help of the Prism2 HostAP >project. No dice. *That* requires a firmware update to firmware that >is not available as an official update from Linksys. It's apparently >possible to use any prism2 firmware with any vendor's prism2 based >cards, but there seemed to be some indication that some people have >smoked their cards doing this. > So I'm back on the hunt for a real WAP. Chump^WCompUSA only carries >one more model that isn't also a hub -- it's a Netgear model that >requires Windows in order to configure it (through its USB port). I >won't buy it on principle, but I don't have access to any Windows >machines, anyhow (and intend on keeping it that way). This is trying my >commitment to my principles, however, as I'm at that 'I just want it to >work' stage about right now. > Does anyone know of a WAP that: > >o is configurable entirely from Linux like the Linksys which uses a web >interface >o isn't also a wired hub -- I don't want to pay for what I don't need -- >one RJ45 connection is all I need, thank you >o is known to work with the WPC11v3 Linksys card > >? > > >-- >-Paul Iadonisi > Senior System Administrator > Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist > Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. > GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets > >_______________________________________________ >gnhlug-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss