 When A Wifi Card Goes Bad? |
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 Aug 7 2011, 07:34 AM
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I am using a DLink WIFI card and it always worked great. Lately I started using my Z again and when I put the card in it is recognized but it never connects, it just says "Network offline". Sometimes I eject and re-insert the card and I get card unsupported (but ussually it recognizes it the first time, this only happen of Eject/reinsert. Oddly, on my C3200 it shows some activity in the WIFI monitor app, but while it shows the MAC address of the card for a while, the Mac Address will then suddenly disappear but the activity remains (signal strength/quality strong, but very little IO since it doesn't connect). Anyway, I am wondering if this indicates that the CF card is dying/dead or if there is some other tests I should try before giving up the ghost on this one? |
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Aug 8 2011, 08:37 AM
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QUOTE(Omicron @ Aug 7 2011, 11:34 AM)  I am using a DLink WIFI card and it always worked great. Lately I started using my Z again and when I put the card in it is recognized but it never connects, it just says "Network offline". Sometimes I eject and re-insert the card and I get card unsupported (but ussually it recognizes it the first time, this only happen of Eject/reinsert. Oddly, on my C3200 it shows some activity in the WIFI monitor app, but while it shows the MAC address of the card for a while, the Mac Address will then suddenly disappear but the activity remains (signal strength/quality strong, but very little IO since it doesn't connect). Anyway, I am wondering if this indicates that the CF card is dying/dead or if there is some other tests I should try before giving up the ghost on this one? It may well be possible to reflash the card firmware, it's certainly worth a try. http://junsun.net/linux/intersil-prism/ |
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Aug 8 2011, 01:43 PM
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Cool!, I will give that a try!
Thanks. |
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