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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: August 22, 2005, 02:03:04 pm »

Just got my 6000SL back from Sharp. Everything now works just fine.

Cheers, mike

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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: August 01, 2005, 10:22:30 pm »

I used to have a Linksys wireless router (model BEFW1154) that would behave flakey about once a week. When I had problems, I would unplug the electric plug to the router, wait for about a minute, then plug it back in. It would resync with my cable modem, and work. As I said, I had to do that about once a week, and I finally got a Netgear router that did not give me this problem. So maybe this is worth a try for you.
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I concur with this. I have the same flakiness with my Linksys model and pulling the plug, waiting ten seconds, then replugging it in, seems to set things right. Sometimes I have to do it twice. It only affects wireless.
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While I agree with this (have had trouble with Linksys router before), I don't think this is the source of my problem. The wireless network is working just fine for my laptop, and those of guests. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have also been unsuccessful connecting my Z to the wireless network at a local coffee shop, and now also at work. I can't establish either of an 'Infrastructure' or an '802.11 Ad-Hoc' network connection, and the green Wireless LAN light has never come on for me.

One thing I noticed: when I 'lsmod' after a reboot I don't see p80211 or pcmcia_usb loaded. Manually loading them with 'insmod', however, doesn't help. Presumably those two modules are loaded when a network connection is successfully established?

Unless I'm missing something that's obvious to everyone else (do I need to somehow "activate" the wireless LAN module inside the Z?), I have to conclude that my internal wireless card is defective. I have contacted Sharp Customer Support, will report back, if that turns up anything.

So long. mike

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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: July 31, 2005, 02:55:51 am »

Have you recently run Kismet by any chance? I had trouble connecting to my Linksys router after installing and using Kismet. I can't remember what I did exactly but I dumped some files in Kismet that contained other connection choices, then cleared my network settings, reset them and then everything was okay.
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No, I hadn't run kismet, yet. I now have installed kismet by following the kismet how-to. However, I can't even connect to the bogus "war-drive" ad-hoc network. I've described this in more detail in the '6000 General Discussions' forum. Please post further advice/recommendation/help there: [a href=\"http://https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10859]Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine[/url]

Thanks.  mike

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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: July 31, 2005, 02:33:40 am »

Make a "scanner" setting like in the kismet how-to.  That should start up the wireless.  If you have kismet installed as well it should show you the access point.
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This doesn't work either. I now have a "war-walk" configured just as in the kismet how-to, but when I click on connect, I again get 'Start connecting', then a much longer (like 1 or 2 minutes) 'Initializing', then a 'Network Offline'. At no point does the green light come on (not that I would know what color it is...).

Broken wireless card? Further help *very* welcome.

mike

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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: July 30, 2005, 02:49:43 pm »

I'm having a similar problem with my Linksys WRT54G. Actually, I don't even see the MAC address change in the Current tab. I have configured a very basic service: Non-Spec ESS-ID, no WEP, DHCP, auto-detect DNS, no proxy. When I try to connect I get first 'Start connecting', then 'Initializing', then after ~5 seconds, 'Network Offline'. I don't see any activity in the WLAN light at all. My Z is a refurbished SL-6000L, I got it just yesterday.

I have also tried changing the channels on my router (2, 6, 10), but none work. There are no other routers anywhere near mine, no interference, and no MAC filtering.

I have now also tried connecting to a different wireless network at a local coffee shop - no luck. I'm beginning to suspect that my built-in wireless card may be broken... How can I test that? I did a 'dmesg' and looked at /var/log/dmesg, but I don't see anything troublesome (or encouraging for that matter). I haven't yet tried OpenZaurus - maybe I should, since it seemed to work for Chris. I've never flashed a ROM before, and I suspect that might open a whole 'nother can of worms...

Any suggestions?

mike

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6000 - Tosa / Unable To Connect To Linksys Ap, Adhoc Works Fine

« on: July 30, 2005, 03:50:58 am »

Were you ever able to connect?

I'm having a similar problem with my Linksys WRT54G. Actually, I don't even see the MAC address change in the Current tab. I have configured a very basic service: Non-Spec ESS-ID, no WEP, DHCP, auto-detect DNS, no proxy. When I try to connect I get first 'Start connecting', then 'Initializing', then after ~5 seconds, 'Network Offline'. I don't see any activity in the WLAN light at all.

I have also tried changing the channels on my router (2, 6, 10), but none work. There are no other routers anywhere near mine, no interference, and no MAC filtering. I'm beginning to suspect that my built-in wireless card may be broken...

Any suggestions?

mike

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6000 - Tosa / Need Installation Cd For 6000

« on: July 29, 2005, 06:45:59 pm »

2.  Thanks to The Oak for uploading a copy of his cd.  You can download it and the md5 check file from

http://www.spazpics.com/zaurus/

Hey, many thanks! That was exactly my problem, too: no installation CD.

This is a fabulous site, great resource!

mike