Re: Belkin Wireless G Plus PCI card

["Justin Hartman" <jjhartman@gmail.com>]

I'm almost 100% confident the problem is with the card and not the
router. I use the laptop and wifi connection both at home and at the
office which both use different routers: one a DLINK router (office)
and the other Netgear (home).

On 2/28/07, Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
> Justin Hartman wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > I'm having serious issues trying to get my Belkin Wireless G Plus PCI
> > card working efficiently in etch on my laptop.
> >
> > I used ndiswrapper to install the drivers for the card from a
> > ndiswrapper etch wiki [1] and although I am able to connect to the
> > wireless network I have to sit right next to the router in order to
> > get an internet connection. As soon as I move more than 10m away I
> > lose internet connection despite having a 100% signal rate.
> >
> > Has anyone had similar problems and if so can you provide some
> > assistance please?
> >
> > [1]
> > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebianEtch
> I don't have any experience with that card itself, but have you verified
> if the problem is in your laptop wireless card and not your wireless
> router?  By that I mean, have you set up roaming and seen if you can can
> connect to other AP's (open APs') without this problem?
>
> There is some flakiness with the connection between my Broadcom chip and
> my Netgear router, but I'm convinced the problem is in the router, not
> my chip, as I do not have the problem I have with my router with any
> other AP.