Perplexed: Samba and Wirlessnetworking. Simple yet I cannot make it workl. Please input your ideas

I am running DSL- Damn Small Linux. Based on Debian. Unable to
Browse windows XP shares. Connection times out!.

this is the error when attempting to browse windows share.


Lappy 166mhz 40 megs ram
PCMCIA ETHO Nic card and USB wifi ETH1
network is up and working on devices.

If I disable ETH1 ( wifi ) restart the notebook, it obtains an ip
address. Once i am in the desktop, i click on the samba icon, and I
am able to browse the available groups/folder.
If I disable the ETH0 nic card, and enable the Wifi ETH1, restart the
pc, I am able to ping the window$ box, ping the gateway, browse the
net, however I am not able to browse or see any available group!

if i go into the console and issue:


smbclient -L //Test

it says

added interface ip=192.168.0.3 ( my laptop ip ) bcast=192.168.0.255
nmask=255.255.255.0

and thats it.. after a whil it says this error:

session request to test failed ( Call timed out: sever did not respond
after 2000 milliseconds )



while the laptop is attempting to connect to the xp box, i do a
netstat on the XP machine and see the following

tcp cid-desktop: net bios-ssn 192.168.0.3:1028

so its contacting the xp machine, but thats it.



however, by disabling the wireless, rebooting the laptop, and enabling
the other nic card ETH0, i am able to browse the group no problem.

has anyone see this thing before?i hope i am not the only one.

any help, tips, anything is highly appreciated.. i lost a bit of hair
last night trying to figure it out. I even started clean from Scrath ,
re installed dsl etc.. and the same issue persists.

so to summarize.


Wired eth0 works , i can browse the shares no problem!. if i have the
two cards on the laptop at the same time, i can still browse, as long
as the physical wired card is enable and connected to the linksys
router, all is good.


if i disable the Eth0 and just run on wireless, i can browse the net,
ping anything i want , including the xp box, ping hateway everything..
except i cannot browse the sahres.. it times out!


theres no firewall enabled on the laptop , and i even turned off the
firewall on the router. didnt work

has anyone seen this before? any, any inputs is appreciated.

btw, i am using WAP encryption, and I ahve verified i am connected to
my own network and not the neighbours LOL!.

thanks