[Wylug-discuss] Wireless oddness

[Nick Moulsdale]

Have you upgraded the Firmware to the latest version? Try wrt54g.com for interesting info. Also Linksysinfo.org.

How hot does the Laptop/card get? Just a thought?

N.G. Moulsdale FCA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Patterson [mailto:steve at patter.mine.nu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:46 PM
> To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
> Subject: [Wylug-discuss] Wireless oddness
> 
> Hi
> 
> There seems to be quite a lot of noise about wireless here, so I thought
> I'd post a question here, basically connection loss.
> 
> I've got a linksys WRT54GS2 router running in WPA-PSK mode, with MAC
> access restrictions on, and I use a D-Link DWL-G650 wireless card in my
> laptop, with /home mounted from via NFSi (NFS server on the router's
> external interface, so packets coming through the firewall), and I'm
> using wpa_supplicant to manage the WPA auth.
> 
> I can get get a wifi connection using either the madwifi drivers (ath0)
> or the windows driver through ndiswrapper (wlan0) but after a while the
> connection dies (dmesg only reports 'nfs server not responding'). I can
> usually re-establish connection by running dhclient manually.
> 
> When the connection first fails, it is usually after the laptop's been
> running for a while, I can often reconnect using dhclient but then the
> connection drops off much sooner.
> 
> During this, I've not moved the laptop, and its got good signal
> strength. There seems to be some correlation with the traffic volume as
> it seems to cut out sooner if I'm watching videos that are on the NFS
> mounted volume than if I'm just generally poking about on the internet.
> 
> So, any suggestions?
> 
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