[lug] Linux and wireless (Followup)

[Michael Belanger]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 10:25, Michael Belanger wrote:

> Also.  The little blackbox solution seems to irritate a preexisting problem
> with my NIC (Some 3com soho ethernet card).  Something is shutting off or
> uninstalling the card!  Something is sensing the connection and any drops,
> hiccups or anything, it just blows my card out of memory!!  Anyone see this
> before?  I am going to try a different card tonight, but it really sounds
> like it is a 'helpful' service gone bad!  (Fedora Core 4).
>

Well here seems to be the problem...
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3cSOHO100-TX Hurricane (rev 30)

I think there is a bug with the driver for this card..

Ironically, I resolved the issue with an old Linksys card I found in our 
basement...

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 
10/100 (rev 11)

It stays connected and active when I reboot the router, or move the cable to 
another connection or port.

The other connect problem with the blackbox (D-Link DGL-3420 Wireless Gaming 
adapter), was that the router was setup with wpa2-auto -- which apparently is 
not supported.  So.. I downgraded slightly to plain ole WPA and things are 
working great!

There is one last thing to test...  During this whole mess, I read that I 
should disable the NTP service until this is resolved -- otherwise it will 
hang there.  I will see if I can get the ntp service to run with this new 
setup, confirming that the new NIC was indeed the fix.

-- 
Michael Belanger
CICLOPS, Space Science Institute

'A Negotium of scientia reperio tantum 
 dissimilis of quam ignarus nos vere es.'
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