[MLB-WIRELESS] Interesting death...

[bchild at wireless.org.au]

Fenn,

I too have had a similar issue though just wif a pcmcia card in a laptop,
swapped cards, re-installed OS's & drivers, changed everything I could
think of.  Then I remember when I started getting these problems.

It all started on a hot day, my signal would go up & down like crazy and
eventually drop out completly and then would drop out completey, Windows
XP & 98 would see the card fine, could enable disable it fine, but
wouldn't see networks or see anything under net stumbler.

I have come to the conclusion that during the hotter days that the card
has over heated and done some iternal heat damage that I'm unable to fine.
 That and considering when I pulled the card out it was so hot it wasn't
funny.

Moral of my story is, don't let your cards get to hot.

> 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).
>
> 	Fenn.
>
>
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