Dead WPC11?

Hi all...

I've been successfuly using a Linksys WPC11 on my laptop w/ XP home
edition for about a year now. At the other end I have a Linksys
wireless cable router - I forget the exact model number but its their
basic 4 port router + 802.11b model - BFSR4W11 I think. During this
time the router and the laptop have basically been in the same
physical location. The last day or two I started having problems -
first I started having failures when browsing the web. I tried
pinging the router from the laptop and noticed about a 25% packet loss
rate. This morning, the laptop refuses to link up with the router at
all - I just get a network unavailable message. Thinking it might be
a signal strength issue, I moved the laptop immediately next to the
router and rebooted both the laptop and the router but still no luck -
XP is insisting that there is no available wireless network.

Meanwhile, I tried out my desktop machine which has a Linksys WUSB11
adapter and it found the router just fine and I was able to surf with
no problems, so I can only conclude that my WPC11 or something on my
laptop is at fault here. Anyone have any ideas?

SL wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> I've been successfuly using a Linksys WPC11 on my laptop w/ XP home
> edition for about a year now. At the other end I have a Linksys
> wireless cable router - I forget the exact model number but its their
> basic 4 port router + 802.11b model - BFSR4W11 I think. During this
> time the router and the laptop have basically been in the same
> physical location. The last day or two I started having problems -
> first I started having failures when browsing the web. I tried
> pinging the router from the laptop and noticed about a 25% packet loss
> rate. This morning, the laptop refuses to link up with the router at
> all - I just get a network unavailable message. Thinking it might be
> a signal strength issue, I moved the laptop immediately next to the
> router and rebooted both the laptop and the router but still no luck -
> XP is insisting that there is no available wireless network.
>
> Meanwhile, I tried out my desktop machine which has a Linksys WUSB11
> adapter and it found the router just fine and I was able to surf with
> no problems, so I can only conclude that my WPC11 or something on my
> laptop is at fault here. Anyone have any ideas?

Sometime my router gets IP confusion on one computer. Must be female.
Anyway, I turn everything off, back on, and all is well. Doesn't do it
enough to warrant me to do something about it. If your problem remains
I agree with your conclusions.
--
robert - redhat & slackware