Re: Continually losing wireless connection

[Amol Modi <amolmodi yahoo com>]

No, didn't work. I have noticed that the disconnect seems to happen when
I start to download files, either via edonkey, bittorrent, or even ftp.

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> Message: 33
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:04:05 -0500
> From: johnfox optonline net
> Subject: Re: Continually losing wireless connection
> To: redhat-list redhat com
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Not sure if a similar approach will work on linux, but it might be worth a try.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amol Modi <amolmodi yahoo com>
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2004 8:37 pm
> Subject: Continually losing wireless connection
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> > 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:
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> > 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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