On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 19:43, David wrote: > Is it good list etiquette to post the final solution to old inquiries? If > so.. here goes...
Any chance of version number here? I have Netgear - a WG311v2 PCI card in a Windows box talking to a WG602 AP. > > 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 -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
