[CLUE-Tech] wireless problem

[Eric Jorgensen]

Hello,

I am new to the list, and hope that I can get some
help here.  If this is not an appropriate question,
I'd appreciate a pointer to a more suitable forum.

I have a Dell Latitude C810 running RH9. I have added
a Truemobile 1150 pcmcia 802.11b card running the
orinoco driver, connecting to a Netgear WG602 access
point. I have had this combination for about a year,
and thought that even though I do everything over ssh,
I should
tie things down a bit. I changed the default essid and
gave the Netgear a static IP address, and I upgraded
the firmware to 1.5.67. Everything worked fine for
several days after these changes, but since
a week ago, I've been seeing very poor performance
(lag while typing, etc.) as well as the following in
/var/adm/messages:

Feb 11 10:56:20 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Disconnected (0002)
Feb 11 10:56:22 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Connected (0001)
Feb 11 10:58:25 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Disconnected (0002)
Feb 11 10:58:26 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Connected (0001)
Feb 11 10:59:16 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Disconnected (0002)
Feb 11 10:59:17 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Connected (0001)
Feb 11 10:59:39 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Disconnected (0002)
Feb 11 10:59:40 martin kernel: eth1: New link status:
Connected (0001)


I swapped in another 1150 card, and the same thing
happened. Is this the result of the changes on the
access point? Or is there something else going on
here? I'm not doing anything different in terms of the
physical relationship of the access point to the
wireless card.

Running kismet shows another couple of stations in my
neighborhood, one even running on channel 11.  I moved
to channel 7, but the problem remains.

Any help would be appreciated, as well as pointers to
other resources (mailing lists, etc.) that could also
be helpful.

Thanks,

Eric