[Lancaster] anyone have a spare wireless card

[andy baxter]

On 05/08/10 10:22, Ken Hough wrote:
> As far as I know, the Netgear routers use standard b and g wifi protocols. The
> DG834GT model that I can also use a 'special' Netgear mode that can provide
> approx twice the 'g' speed.
>
> You might check what setting have been enabled/allowed on your router and how
> they compare with those on your flatmates machine.
>
> I leave mine set to allow both 'b' and 'g'.
>    

Same here.
> Do you have MAC access control set and if so has the MAC address of his card
> been added to the list of acceptable devices?
>
>    
Yes. Same problem though if I turn access control off.

> Does your flatmate use Linux? If so, try using Wicd. This is the best thing I
> know for detecting and managing wi-fi links.
>
>    
Have tried this, but get the same results.

> You might check also that your flatmates security/encryption matches that on
> your router
>    

The only odd thing is when using that card the encryption keeps getting 
mis-detected as WEP instead of WPA, and I have to force it to use WPA.

It works fine on my laptop. That card used to work fine on the router in 
my friend's old house, but the router I bought for this house uses MIMO, 
which is a way of getting better range out of standard wireless b/g 
devices, so that might be the problem.

I've also tried with no security, and that doesn't work properly either.

The card is a Texas Instruments ACX 111 based PCI card. The only thing I 
can think of but haven't tried is to compile the open source driver for 
it ( http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ ), but that doesn't work with WPA so 
isn't a long term solution.

andy