[MLB-WIRELESS] Interesting death...

[Jason Clarke]

Was it just me, or was anyone else expecting a Tron like experience at the
following * marks?

# **ZAP** like moments here..

:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fenn Bailey" <fenn_b at smktech.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Interesting death...


> Hey All,
>
* > An interesting thing happened to me recently (that's an opening sentence
to
> get people scared). Anyway, I have a wireless network setup between my
> loungeroom machine and internet gateway (for internet/mp3/etc).
>
> Recently, it started getting unreliable - eg: connection dropping out,
etc.
> Checked the card/drivers/etc the lot and couldn't work out what was going
> on.
>
> Though not much of it, except that it started to get worse and worse until
> there was essentially no connectivity - it was as if the card just stopped
> working.
>
> Started re-installing drivers, etc - I'd recently installed an SCSI card,
so
> removed that.
>
> Eventually worked out that I was an idiot, and that it was actualy the
> lucent RG-1000 gateway I had that had died.
>
> All the lights were on/etc, but no connectivity.
>
* > I opened it up  (knowing it was just a standard card inside), and the
card
> appeared to be correctly installed in the socket (though if you ever drop
> one of these, I wouldn't be surprised if it could come loose).
>
# > Powered it up and it all _looked_ ok, but didn't work. The problem was,
I
> didn't have any orinoco silver cards handy to replace it with, so I just
> popped in an Enterasys.
>
> To my surprise, it worked fine AND fixed my problem.
>
# > I put the original Orinoco Silver out of it into a PC and it really
appears
> to be dead. Detects fine, the lights flash, everything works OK, but
> absolutely 0 signal (not just very very low - NOTHING).
>
> I put my RG-1000 back together and am generally happy now, except that I'm
1
> wireless card down.
>
> Can anyone think of a problem like that described above, that would cause
a
> card to get worse and worse until it didn't work at all.
>
#* > I've taken the card apart (some), but can't see anything physically
wrong
> with it.
>
> I'm at a loss (thankfully, I didn't pay for the AP).


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