Re: airport problem on ibook2
> > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook"
> > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
> > Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
> > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
> > Encryption key:off
> > Power Management:off
> > Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153
> > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> >
> > and nothing works (I can't ping anything).
> >
> > Access Point is now 44:44:44:44:44:44, which I don't explain. More
> > importantly, "Link Quality" is 0/92 and "Noise level" is 134/153. I
> > don't know what this exactly means but that doesn't sound good to me!
>
> if the access point has a bogus value (like 44:44:... or 00:00:... you had
> up there), the airport card did not find it.
> Not finding it means that it also does get a zero link quality
> and signal/noise both in the same range.
Ok.
> There might be numerous reasons for that; Most probably it's some
> problem between the setup of both wireless stations.
>
> What kind of hardware is used for the base station?
The base station we have here is a Cisco Aironet (340 or 350).
> Were you able to connect there by wireless LAN using some
> other hardware (eg. another laptop? or using OS X)?
People using x86 laptops have succeeded in making their wireless
connection work.
> If possible, I suggest also booting into OS X and checking if/what
> networks are visible there; that helped me quite a bit when
> I set up my own environment.
Oops. I forgot to mention that my wireless connection does not work
either from within OS X. I got the same symptoms, i.e. a bogus
access point value (44:44:...) and a base station not seeing anything.
That's what made me think I may have an antenna problem. The antenna
cable seems well plugged though.
Thx.
--
Eric
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