Hi John, I have had almost identical behavior with 3 different Linksys WAP 11 v2.6 boxes. I snagged a Belkin AP to fill in until my cisco 1100 comes in and it worked fine the past 2 weeks but twice this morning did exactly what the WAP-11's did and what you describe. It's like the Radio gets switched off but the AP itself thinks it's fat, dumb, and happy. I haven't disassembled the boxes to see what chipsets I was dealing with. I got Linksys to take the WAP's back.
One of my co-workers had previously had an experience where "XP was killing the APs" at a previous employer and he suspects the 2 XP laptops in the office, but I have not been able to reproduce the problem at will. I'm interested in anything you find out. Regards, Ken Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:58:49 -0800 > From: John D Nanninga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] Rude Symbol AP > > Hi all, > > I have friend with Symbol 4121 802.11b Access Point that is acting up > and I'm hoping someone in the BAWUG community can give me some hints > before I recommend throwing this thing away. Here are the facts: > > 1. It used to work fine for > a year. > 2. Netstumbler reports it up and working fine. > 3. All laptops and cards (three laptops tried) suffer the same > experience. > 4. Windows XP reports the AP is up and running, however once it is > accessed, the AP ceases to give a signal. > The events would look like > a. AP up and running looking fine via Netstumber or a > wireline telnet connection to the AP admin screen > b. Client clicks on the XP "View available networks" and > sees the AP > c. Clients clicks on "Connect" and the AP radio seems to > cease working. (this is true for Win98 and Win2k clients as well) > d. Netstumbler no longer sees the AP > e. The wireline telnet connection to the AP still works and > the AP seems to be working fine from a terminal view. > f. I've tried to set everything the factory defaults (by > manually reseting each item by the manual) without luck. > > ? Have I missed a setting that says 'if a client tries to connect, shut > down the radio'? > > Thanks!! > > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
