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right then.
I'm sat here with a Linksys WPC11 in my netBook, trying to get it to talk to a D-Link DI-614+ access point.
I know that the card is working, 'cos the lights are flashing away and FLFinger sits there trying to ping for quite some time, but no joy.
NetstatRF says 'Searching for initial connection', and that's about it.
I've tried fiddling with various of the parameters to no avail, so before I write a huge long posting full of potential rubbish, what would people suggest I try first?
sorted! I had to set the channel ID to 1 on the wireless router.
Next question. Current Tx rate in NetstatRF is showing as 2Mbps. If I 'fix' it in the settings to 11Mbps, NetstatRF shows 4Mbps. What has anyone else found on this front?
I got a wireless network :D :D :D
netBookBabe
11-01-2002, 04:28 PM
Originally posted by diem
I got a wireless network :D :D :D Congrats, Yan! :D I'm looking forward to the day when I'll be able to say that - I fear it's a long way off though. :(
Julie
rico naf
11-04-2002, 09:08 AM
Different subject.
Has anyone sucsessfully faked the MAC address.
You know pretend to be ;)
Is there a way of doing this on the netbook?
dukibean
11-04-2002, 09:15 AM
Originally posted by diem
Next question. Current Tx rate in NetstatRF is showing as 2Mbps. If I 'fix' it in the settings to 11Mbps, NetstatRF shows 4Mbps. What has anyone else found on this front?
Have a look at the reviews at:
www.80211-planet.com and www.practicallynetworked.com
4Mbps is pretty average/good at close range.
wanman
11-04-2002, 10:21 AM
Dukibean,
What's the difference between 802.11a & 802.11b. If Yan is using B then 2-4mb is the standard for this but on one of the reports you linked to, 802.11a can get up to 20Mbps?
Regards
Si
dukibean
11-04-2002, 11:36 AM
I'm no expert, but from what I've read .11a achieves about 10-11Mbps in practice with a line-of-site connection. Obstacles, distance and wireless encryption all serve to reduce the transfer rate.
The difference between them is that .11a operates at a much higher frequency (approx double) than .11b, thus permitting a higher trasfer rate per second.
wanman
11-04-2002, 11:41 AM
my second question then, are there .11a cards available for the netbook/7book or is it only the .11b cards?
Regards
Si
Don't know if I'm just lucky, but I can usually get 11Mbps around most of my house using an Avaya Gold Card talking to a Linksys WAP11 access point.
As for 802.11a, there don't seem to be many PCMCIA cards around anyway (Linksys/D-Link/Intel/???) and I keep reading these articles saying that 802.11a will be obsolete by the end of next year and that you would be better waiting for 802.11g which will be backwards compatible with your legacy 802.11b kit.
Personally, since all I really use it for is browsing the web over a 64kb ISDN link, anything over 2Mbps is more than enough for me anyway javascript:smilie(':D')
big grin
Cheers
Ian
walterk
11-05-2002, 03:29 AM
Hi,
there coming more and more cards for .11a and even some for both .11a and .11b, but they are all complete new and I don't think anyone will develop a 16bit card for this standard.
So I don't believe there will be a solution for netbook.
cu
Walter
Originally posted by walterk
Hi,
there coming more and more cards for .11a and even some for both .11a and .11b, but they are all complete new and I don't think anyone will develop a 16bit card for this standard.
So I don't believe there will be a solution for netbook.
cu
Walter
Agree. The drivers built in to the current OS support two different 802.11b chipsets. Its taken Psion 3 years to get us this far - don't hold your breath on 802.11a support...
spegru
11-05-2002, 02:49 PM
I'm kinda intrigued on the part of this thread that in concerned with ultimate speed of LAN connections. What are you guys/gals connecting too?
In my case it's a 256/512k ADSL connection. Note the "k".
If you are working into a busy corporate LAN of something then higher speeds may be relevant but other than that why worry - 10M ethernet is fine?
Or am I missing something?
rgds
spegru
raindog
11-05-2002, 04:13 PM
2 spegru:
it's too slowly to exchange films between the machines :).
wanman
11-06-2002, 03:32 AM
I have a 1mb Telewest Broadband at home connected to a router. My 7book will connect at 100mb but maximum connection to the internet would be the 1mb/s (obviously). Mind you, if Psiwin ever enabled LAN connection for backups, I could in theory backup at 100mb/s (if the 7 motherboard was that quick !!). I wonder how likely this is ???? lol
Regards
Si
Steve Moore
11-10-2002, 10:13 AM
Hi Yan/Julie etc.
I've pretty much got my Option Globetrotter card working with the help of Vernon at Teklogix but I need a hand with my 802.11 which will be great at home and elsewhere.
I have an Avaya Wireless World Card 11MB/s SILVER
It is a 5V or 16 card
DO I NEED A 3.3Volt card instead?
WHAT SHOULD MY CONTROL PANEL SETTINGS BE?
The card works fine with PCs
ALL help gratefully acknowledged ;-)
x
Originally posted by Steve Moore
Hi Yan/Julie etc.
I've pretty much got my Option Globetrotter card working with the help of Vernon at Teklogix but I need a hand with my 802.11 which will be great at home and elsewhere.
Oooh, nice! Presumably this is the GPRS CF card? If yo don't mind, it would be very useful to the community if you would post both what revision of netBook you have, and what settings you used to get the GPRS card going..
I have an Avaya Wireless World Card 11MB/s SILVER
It is a 5V or 16 card
DO I NEED A 3.3Volt card instead?
No, you're fine, netBook supports both 3.3 and 5V PC Cards.
WHAT SHOULD MY CONTROL PANEL SETTINGS BE?
You should choose the '802_11 Lucent' setting in your ethernet control panel.
By default this is set to use DHCP to pick up its TCP/IP settings. If you are using a gateway or router on your LAN, then it will probably beset up appropriately as a DHCP server. THat should be it, unitl you start to want to play with WEP...
Steve Moore
11-10-2002, 01:54 PM
ref: Option card
I used the GRPS set-up app. that came with the latest OS 158.
Teklogix sorted the commdb.dat after I e-mailed them mine as I had had problems. I can't seem to mail FROM the card yet but that will just be a mail server problem. Not AMAZINGLY fast but pretty quick and great to be able to use my phone at the same time. Very useful in meetings.
ref: Avaya card
Yes, I had done all that but still no joy. Any ideas? Settings as follows -
802_11-Lucent
DHCP
<our host details>
Lucent WaveLAN / Orinico Card
anything else?
Steve
Hi Steve,
I had a little trouble setting up my Avaya card, but nothing too much. The main one that got me was that I expected the card to start immediately I plugged it in, but instead you have to connect to the Internet through the email or web browsers to get the card to start operating.
Probably the easiest way to start debugging your installation is to start the NetStatRF app on your Netbook and check things like the connection status and what you are connected to (there will also be a nice green bar at the bottom if it is getting a good signal from your Access Point)
You could also check the network status to see if you have obtained an IP address using DHCP - for some reason I have never managed to get my LinkSys WAP11 AP to work properly with DHCP so I had to hard code an IP address, default gateway and DNS server in the config.
The other thing you may want to check is the channel your AP is using - I think another poster had to set this to 1 to get their Netbook and AP to talk. Also if your AP is using encryption then you have to set up encryption on the Netbook as well.
Hope this helps
Ian
yes, agree regarding the channel selelction thing. I found I had to set the access point to 1 initially, but once they started talking I could change this at will.
Secondly, if you are using MAC address filtering on your access point, you'll need to ensure that the MAC address of the Avaya card is on the list.
Steve Moore
11-11-2002, 02:22 AM
I can't see where I change the access point settings - is this on the netBook somewhere?
Steve
Your AP will have a configuration program which runs on a PC, either using USB or Ethernet (or maybe even just a serial line) to communicate with the AP.
You need to go in there to change the AP settings e.g. channel, encryption, operating mode, etc.
Cheers
Ian
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