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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
> 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
