WAP54G problems: connectivity & stability

Good news. After poking around a bit, i have finally made some progress
Yesterday, i had absolutely no problems connecting to the WAP. I hav
even been able to implement WPA AES encryption...nice...

What i did / my findings

- hardboot the WAP (power on/power off) after config change
- install the WPC54G drivers on XP SP2 WITHOUT INSTALLING THE LINKSY
UTILITY !!! I think both programs (XP Wireless and Linksys programs
caused interoperability problems
So uninstall everything, then i manually removed the following file
\winnt\inf\oem4.inf (driver definition) and \winnt\drivers\bcml5.sy
(or something like that, actual driver
Insert the card again, you should get the 'new hardware found
wizard and point the wizard specifically to the downloaded unpacke
Linksys drivers. This will install the drivers, but not the s****
Linksys Utility. Reboot

And after that, no problems found connecting to the WAP
It could be however, that the interference causing my previou
problems, was not present yesterday during my testing....lets see ho
it goes the following days...

PS. If you have an Access Point with SSID broadcast DISABLED, is ther
a way to detect these signals ? How can i see that channel 1 is clea
if i have APs that use channel 1 but with SSID broadcast disbaled ?
Will NetStumbler see this AP

Geer

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In article <Geert.Nijs.1j5q7m@WiFi-Forum_dot_com>,
Geert Nijs <Geert.Nijs.1j5q7m@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

>PS. If you have an Access Point with SSID broadcast DISABLED, is there
>a way to detect these signals ?

When something is communicating with that AP it is possible to detect
the AP's presence. Of course, if an AP is sitting on a channel and
nothing is talking to it, then it's not going to be interfering with
your gear talking to your AP on the same or an overlapping channel.

> How can i see that channel 1 is clear
>if i have APs that use channel 1 but with SSID broadcast disbaled ??

Use a sniffer that looks for other traffic besides 802.11 beacon frames.

>Will NetStumbler see this AP ?

I don't believe so, but something like kismet will.

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Nick Christenson
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