[MLB-WIRELESS] Netstumbler query

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

What you do is load up the orinoco config tool under the control panel and
get it to the window where you have to enter the SSID of what you want to
connect to or scan, and just leave it there in the background.  When it gets
to this point it puts the card in some mode where it picks up everything,
ad-hoc and AP.

I find this is the only way I can stumble and I've seen it on heaps of
cards, heaps of different PC's and different netstumbler versions. No idea
what it is.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Carey" <mcarey4 at bigpond.net.au>
To: "melbwireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Netstumbler query


> Hi Everybody,
> Sorry for the long email but........
> I have been having some grief with Netstumbler of late and have drawn a
> blank. So I thought I would ask the collective knowledge of wirless gurus
at
> Melbourne Wireless.
> A friend asked to borrow my Orinoco Silver card and external magnetic
> antenna for a bit of a 'stumble last week. No problem I thought and he
> promptly collected before mentioned items.
> Later, when asking him how things went, he told me my card is crap!!
> Aghast, I prompted him for further information.
> It seems that my Orinoco card just plain ol' cannot see some access
points!!
> He has a laptop with XP and a D-Link PCCard (no external antenna) and he
> found six access points that the Orinoco card (which is supposed to be the
> one for netstumbler) cannot see!!
> Of course I tried my other PCCard and found that indeed he was correct.  I
> even found that I now cannot see some access points that I had no trouble
> with before. What is going on??
> My laptop is W2K SP3, Orinoco firmware 8.72, client S/W 7.6 (I think).
> Has anyone out there in Melb Wireless land had problems with this??
> Regards,
> Michael Carey (bruised head from banging on the desk!)
>
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