wpc11 v4, Linksys WLAN Monitor v2 broken, Boingo, Win 2000 Pro, Netstumbler

Netstumbler broke the Linksys WLAN monitor. The monitor now
reports "No association with wireless card" or some such thing.
Perusing Usenet, I found postes regarding the problem and "fixed"
it by installing the Boingo monitor program. But, it still bugs
the hell out of me as to how and why Netstumbler screwed up the
Linksys monitor ( did it change the mode of the card? did it flash
it with a different firmware? ) . I did all the usual stuff to
problem solve ... remove and install stuff a bizilian times. ( Got
rid of Netstumbler all together as it does not work with the card
at all. ) I even tried loading an older backup of the system state,
but the problem is still there witht the Linksys monitor. Has anybody
figured out why this happened and how to reverse it?



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I have never tried to load Netstumlber with any linksys cards, since
none were listed as being compatible. However, after lots of experience
with WLAN, I can tell you it doesn't take much to break it. In short,
(IMHO), Linksys doesn't have a clue about networking and WLAN monitor
sucks, but I digress...

You can edit in a single change, using the latest WLAN version (1.5 I
think?) and WLAN monitor may, or may not record the changes made. Like
switching from adhock mode to infrastructure mode. You can reboot and
WLAN can all of a sudden switch to a profile that you had previously
deleted. All sorts of weird stuff. I've seen it happen across most
versions of WLAN and Windows.

So, I go to 'add remove programs' in control panel and select WLAN
monitor, then click and select remove. (NOT reinstall.) Then I reboot.
During that process, Windows should find your new hardware. Insert the
LinkSys wireless CD that came with your card and cancel the LinkSys
software installation if it comes up. In Win2k pro's found hardware
dialogue box, you can now browse to the drivers subdirectory on the CD
that came with the wireless card and use those files for drivers. After
the drivers install, then you can go into hardware manager and change
any settings for the card that are available. Then you can go to network
settings and enable the settings there you want. With LinkSys, Intel,
SMC, etc. wired products, usually you can add a default gateway of
192.168.1.1 in the TCP/IP settings, (Or whatever router / DHCP server
address you want.) and bingo, you're good to go. With WLAN monitor
installed, you have to go to adhoc mode and plug in static numbers if
you want to do a default gateway address... (I don't want no stinking
static numbers! I want flexible assigned numbers by the default assigned
gateway, you rat bastTARTs at LinkSys... Well again, I digress...) So IF
you want, you can then do a fresh install of the WLAN monitor, since I
don't see, or know of a way to add in WEP, etc. without it.

You can also try changing to a different pci card slot location, if you
have an internal pci card. Short of removing and reinstalling Windows
and applying all the updates, (As a any good steward should.), you can
try the above with usually some success. I've found that WLAN monitor
changes sometimes are very difficult to make stick, but if you keep with
it, you can normally beat it into submission.

Flash wrote:

>
>
> Netstumbler broke the Linksys WLAN monitor. The monitor now
> reports "No association with wireless card" or some such thing.
> Perusing Usenet, I found postes regarding the problem and "fixed"
> it by installing the Boingo monitor program. But, it still bugs
> the hell out of me as to how and why Netstumbler screwed up the
> Linksys monitor ( did it change the mode of the card? did it flash
> it with a different firmware? ) . I did all the usual stuff to
> problem solve ... remove and install stuff a bizilian times. ( Got
> rid of Netstumbler all together as it does not work with the card
> at all. ) I even tried loading an older backup of the system state,
> but the problem is still there witht the Linksys monitor. Has anybody
> figured out why this happened and how to reverse it?
>
>
>
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Excalibur wrote:
> I have never tried to load Netstumlber with any linksys cards, since
> none were listed as being compatible. However, after lots of experience

<snip>

Thanks for the insight, Excalibur. I've got it running nicely now using
Boingo's WLAN monitor, so I guess I shouldn't sweat it any longer. But
it is strange that the Linksys WLAN monitor is *so* dead. I thought
that a clean registry would fix it, but no luck. I really don't
want to do a full reload of the OS to "maybe" fix it.

It seems to me that Netstumbler must have placed a file or changed a
registry entry that the Linksys monitor doesn't like. Or maybe it
is simply a Linksys software bug.

Very strange, indeed ...

Flash



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