Re: Continually losing wireless connection

[johnfox optonline net]

I had similar problems on a windows machine and found that there was another 802.11b wifi network just within range to cause windows to sense the other network, disconnect the current network connection and request that I select between the other network and the one that I was originally connected to.

To rectify the problem, I first tried to configure windows to only connect to my preferred network, but that did not work.  Then I disabled QOS on that NIC.  The combination of those two changes eliminated the problem.

Not sure if a similar approach will work on linux, but it might be worth a try.

----- Original Message -----
From: Amol Modi <amolmodi yahoo com>
Date: Monday, February 2, 2004 8:37 pm
Subject: Continually losing wireless connection

> I've got a Linksys WPC11 Version 3 PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet card 
> runningon RH9 using the orinoco_cs driver. I'm having no problem 
> connecting to
> my network initially, but every couple of minutes or so, I lose the
> connection. The redhat network configuration tool still shows the 
> deviceas active, but iwconfig shows:
> 
> eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
>          Mode:Managed  Channel:-160  Tx-Power=15 dBm
>          RTS thr:off
> 
> This is incredibly annoying, and if anyone has any idea why it 
> happens,I'd appreciate the help.
> 
> 
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