From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcAxF-0002v0-F7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:19:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9O1HTqh003522; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:17:29 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9O1E0Sm017541 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:14:01 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 67so492656wri for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:14:00 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GLHXnea020HAyvQa97cEvB2QakSNd0msxzPHwll7DhoQQbUSkCFffXZdEWkp/O1dSBGjbXsCj3ssJ/hKL1x2tjQvrR1voGdhu8ct4aZS2xIJKXdcdvZPpRsP4ApqFl1dM2NRKgeRdNqTtUy09BMXcXC1EBJjbTcJGQ1AyjvQ2KI= Received: by 10.78.136.9 with SMTP id j9mr8365008hud; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.128.3 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10610231813n7d612f49sa34fae0c2e6a76b9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:13:59 -0700 From: Grant To: "Gentoo mailing list" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless trouble, bad hardware? In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10610231804s1c558ea3h8f2dcd8dce0d30e7@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10610231804s1c558ea3h8f2dcd8dce0d30e7@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 385a7963-c523-407b-a61d-d3b80b72bfc4 X-Archives-Hash: 053e513174b3a2fc59ea18c4b8b7c27d > I'm having trouble with one of my systems not being able to reliably > connect to my Gentoo router wirelessly. > > I have a Netgear WG311T in the router and also the desktop that is > having trouble. I have a Netgear WG511T in my laptop. They all use > the madwifi driver. The laptop connects perfectly every time, and the > desktop used to connect perfectly but has slowly become less and less > reliable until now it rarely connects. The laptop and desktop are > both about 12 feet from the router. I'm in an apartment, but it > doesn't seem like interference could be the problem since the laptop > connects perfectly every time. > > Can anyone recommend anything to check in software? Does this sound > like a hardware problem? Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot to mention that pinging the router (192.168.0.1) from the desktop returns: >>From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable 192.168.1.2 is the router's address on the WAN. If the desktop can't communicate with the router, how would it know the router's WAN address? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list