flaky wireless connection

I'm trying to delve into the wireless world. I have a Netgear WG602B
Access Point, a D-Link DWL-650M PC Card, and a Linksys WMP54G PCI adapter.

I've gotten the D-Link card working with the rtl8180_24x driver from
Realtek (on SuSE 8.2, but not RH 9), via the Access Point in
infrastructure mode. The PC card is an 11Mbps card, and seems to work
well also in a WiFi situation.

I'm trying to get the Linksys PCI card to work, and since I had better
luck with SuSE than RH, I chose a machine with SuSE 9 on it. I downloaded
the ndiswrapper utitilies, and installed the Windows XP drivers with
ndiswrapper. Now, trying to connect to the same Access Point, which is
supposedly a 54Mbs device, but can do both 54 and 11Mbs, I sometimes get a
connection and sometimes not. If the Access Point is only 6 ft away, it
usually works. If I move it to the next room, the connection drops.
Incidentally, I booted up Win2k and tried the PCI card with Linksys
connection utility, and it shows essentially the same kind of
performance--works for a while, then drops.

I'm wondering is 54Mbs is just not ready for prime time, or have a got a
bad unit, (and which one, the access point or the PCI card?).

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Dave Brown Austin, TX

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Dave Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to delve into the wireless world. I have a Netgear WG602B
> Access Point, a D-Link DWL-650M PC Card, and a Linksys WMP54G PCI adapter.
<snip the long stuff>
> I'm wondering is 54Mbs is just not ready for prime time, or have a got a
> bad unit, (and which one, the access point or the PCI card?).

It's probably a bum card - can you drop it into 802.11b mode to see if that
works ok?

If not, I'd say take it back. I just got my Linksys WUSB11 v2.5 today and
finally got it working - even though I don't have my Gateway router yet,
the adapter discovered one in my neighborhood that I'm "borrowing" until it
comes in...heh.

In any case, good luck!

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