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hippotech

Mar 5 2008, 15:27

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Here's a good 'un !!

In our office we have a wireless access point on each floor. The one on my floor uses channel 13 and all the other floors use channel 9 ( long story

).

The linux drivers supplied with the default Xandros and the madwifi solution for Ubuntu both cannot connect. They seem to find the very weak signal on channel 9 from another floor and do not look for the stronger signal on channel 13 - even though I sit 15 feet from it. A connection is briefly established and then dropped.

Anyone have any ideas, suggestions to save me going out to the stairs every now and then when I need a connection. People are starting to talk !!

Hippo

eeecop

Apr 2 2008, 13:15

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just one dumb question.... does the wi-fi work once you've installed windows XP on it or do you still have to have linux on???

hippotech

Apr 8 2008, 09:07

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Not a dumb question at all

It works perfectly with XP....just the default Xandros has an issue and also eebuntu.

Hippo

Shuflie

Apr 19 2008, 07:15

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Have you checked to see if there are any locale settings in the Linux setups that you can adjust for the wireless setup? Channel 13 is legal to use in the UK but not in the states (only goes to channel 11 if I recall correctly). Its possible that Xandros and eebuntu think you are in the US and just won't attempt to use Channel 13 at all.

This post has been edited by Shuflie: Apr 19 2008, 07:16

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