[Ti] Lan problem

[Tarik Bilgin]

On 13 Mar 2005, at 09:53, Peter Krug wrote:

> Sorry to sound so negative, but that's been our experience.

Sadly I have had the same experience. The terminology used across the 
windows and os x platforms to designate configuration options in 
infrastructure-mode wireless networks is not consistent, and each 
PCMCIA network card seems to have a very different driver (in windows) 
with differing levels of configurability.

Also, some access points are much more configurable than others, and 
the solution might be upgrading to a more usable access point, since 
they are fairly cheap and once you find one that works well across 
platforms you can stick with it. I am still using the old 802.11b Apple 
basestation (snow) and have had good compatibility across the different 
technologies.

Also some vendors (cisco, linksys, etc) have a lot of vendor specific 
stuff on their access points, somake sure to switch all this off when 
debugging your network.

Also turn off all authentication when debugging (in a trusted network 
environment) before turning on any of the different security options 
you have with 802.11

hope this helps,

Tarik Bilgin


PS. I also find the older "Conexant" PCMCIA cards the least compatible 
of all.