On Thu, 20 May 2004, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> My neighbor and I both have WRT54g access points. He's on channel 6 and
> I'm on 11. This works great most of the time.
>
> Eventually this setup breaks for me. I'm happily working along with a
> 75% signal strength (reported by my desktop applet) and it all of a
> sudden stops. I still show a strong signal but no data is going out.
>
> If I do an iwlist scan I find that my access point isn't showing up once
> this happens. If I walk closer to my access point it'll eventually
> reconnect, but will fail as soon as I move away again. By very rough
> practical experience it seems to happen about as the signal quality on
> my neighbors access point gets to be greater than mine, but I could be
> wrong there.
>
> A windows box in the house never has this problem. It works even when my
> access point is no longer showing up in the iwlist scan. Also rebooting
> the access point solves the problem, the laptop start working in the
> original location.
>
> Any ideas?
You forgot kernel version, driver version (is it Orinoco at all?),
firmware version of the card, kernel log ("dmesg" output is preferred,
but /var/log/messages may be useful to show the timeline) and "iwconfig"
output both when the traffic flows and when it stops.
Also please try swapping the cards.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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