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From: "Rob Malpass" <rob@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Odd Wireless LAN problem
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> From: "wmd04r" <wmd04r@???>
> To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Odd Wireless LAN problem
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>> Might the wireless only be 802.11b. Try setting your AP to support mixed
>> mode.
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:35:51 -0000, "Rob Malpass"
>> <rob@???> wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Here's an interesting one for any of you who know about WLAN.
>>>
>>> I have a wireless access point connected to my cabled network. Never
>>> had
>>> any trouble with it. The wife's new Vista laptop noticed it and it's
>>> working fine.
>>>
>>> I've just bought a (used) wireless enabled laptop and no connection.
>>> Faffed about with all sorts of settings and still no joy. Initial
>>> conclusion: onboard wireless on my "new" laptop is kaput - take back and
>>> get
>>> refund. The shop is on the way to work so I took the laptop into work
>>> with
>>> me and (for other reasons) powered it up. Surprise surprise - 3
>>> wireless
>>> LANs detected at work. It wouldn't let me connect to any (need a key)
>>> but
>>> next conclusion: no problem with onboard WLAN.
>>>
>>> So it means my PC will play ball at work, but not at home. My wife's
>>> PC
>>> is
>>> fine at home. Thinking it may be a signal strength issue (all WLANs at
>>> work were detected weak) I've just set the laptop right next to the
>>> access
>>> point and still no joy.
>>>
>>> All this is under XP pro, but I have also booted the machine off an
>>> Ubuntu
>>> disk with no WLAN access. It was that initially that made me think its
>>> onboard LAN was broken. Havaid said that I've never used Ubuntu (or
>>> any
>>> Linux distro) with WLAN so if there's a step I'm missing, please shout -
>>> I
>>> expected it to work out of the box as most other Ubuntu things have (and
>>> that's no disrespect to any other distro).
>>>
>>> FWIW it's a Toshiba tecra T9000 and I know about the WLAN switch and
>>> WLAN
>>> hotkey combination. If anyone could shed any light on this, that would
>>> be
>>> good.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
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> Ah - I'd not thought of that. In fact the AP supports 802.11b only.
> Looks like I either need the equivalent setting on the laptop - or a new
> AP.
>
> cheers
> Rob
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Forgive me replying to my own post, but there is no switch to mixed mode on
the AP or on the used laptop. Does this mean that:
* My wife's laptop (bought last month) can revert back to 802.11b
* My older laptop (at least 2 years older but bought yesterday) can't
connect to 802.11b but (presumably) can connect to 802.11g (if that's what
they had in my office).
It sounds implausible to me that the older PC can connect to the new but not
the old - but I'm no expert with WLAN.
Cheers
Rob
