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>> I'm having trouble with one of my systems not being able to reliably |
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>> connect to my Gentoo router wirelessly. |
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>> I have a Netgear WG311T in the router and also the desktop that is |
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>> having trouble. I have a Netgear WG511T in my laptop. They all use |
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>> the madwifi driver. The laptop connects perfectly every time, and the |
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>> desktop used to connect perfectly but has slowly become less and less |
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>> reliable until now it rarely connects. The laptop and desktop are |
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>> both about 12 feet from the router. I'm in an apartment, but it |
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>> doesn't seem like interference could be the problem since the laptop |
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>> connects perfectly every time. |
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>> Can anyone recommend anything to check in software? Does this sound |
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>> like a hardware problem? |
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> Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that pinging the |
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> router (192.168.0.1) from the desktop returns: |
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> From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable |
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> 192.168.1.2 is the router's address on the WAN. If the desktop can't |
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> communicate with the router, how would it know the router's WAN |
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> address? |
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What WAN Address? I cannot see any address other than one of the reserved |
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class C's. I would suggest that either the PC you are pinging from |
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("desktop") does not have an address in the same range as the router, or |
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the default gateway is incorrect on the "desktop". Another possibility is |
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a an IP conflict but this is less likely. |
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Can you possibly post the IP configuration (ifconfig) from the "desktop" |
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machine so that we can see how the interface is set up. |
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