[Lancaster] anyone have a spare wireless card

[Ken Hough]

Andy,

I expected that you would have already tried most things.

Sorry I can't help further and I don't have any spare wi-fi cards to try.

Regards

Ken Hough

On Thursday 05 August 2010 17:59:02 andy baxter wrote:
> 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
>
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