3Com AP 6000 supports short preamble. Not sure what the setting is by default. To turn it off, you'll have to surf to the AP's management IP address and do the following:
In the Configuration Management System navigation tree under System Configuration, click Data Transmission Properties. The Data Transmission Properties page appears, where you can select radio channel settings and performance settings. You want to change the "Data Preamble" to "Long". Apply the settings, and you should be good to go. Jared Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DaveC Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Airport cards and 3COM AP's? A fellow I know was having trouble connecting his PowerBook G4 w/Airport (non-Extreme model) to the public lib's 3COM 3CRWE60092A a.k.a. "3ComR 11 Mbps Wireless LAN Access Point 6000". He could see the AP in the Airport menu, but when he selected the network, he got a profoundly vague error message about having trouble connecting. The password was confirmed, several times by several people there, with no joy. In the documentation handed to him, Macs are not mentioned, but being an 802.11b devices, shouldn't this be a slam-dunk? Other have mentioned that there may be some issues with something called "short RF preamble". Any help decyphering this situation (such that the library IT person can understand it) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
