Re: wireless connection keeps dropping

b wrote:

I picked up a Buffalo Wireless-G router today and hooked it up. It
appears to be working fine.

I have an HP laptop running opensuse10.2. It has a broadcom wireless
setup, so I have NDISwrapper. It appears to start ok, but drops its
connection rather quickly. Here is how it looks initially:

mymachine:~ # iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:01:9A:C0:79
ESSID:"ZZZnet2"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.427 GHz (Channel 4)
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-58 dBm Noise
level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0
IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
Group Cipher : WEP-40
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP WEP-40
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : WEP-40
Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP WEP-40
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK


Within a few minutes it drops and iwlist returns nothing. Many times I
don't even have time to complete a network connection.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks

b.

Try to change the channel on your wireless router. Maybe another wireless
network in your neighborhood is interfering with your wireless network.

Marc
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