[CLUE-Tech] wireless problem

[Tony M.]

Maybe someone in your neighborhood got themselves a
cheap 2.4ghz cordless phone.


--- Eric Jorgensen <jorgy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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