[Cialug] Wireless Kubuntu

[Lars Althof]

Do you know what the wireless card in the laptop is? Some of the open 
source drivers don't support the -g hardware very well, so you might be 
connecting at 12mbps, which  (I think) forces other computers to use the 
same speed.

I am running Kubuntu 6.10 on an HP laptop with the BC4300 chipset, when 
using the open source driver, I see the same behavior you are 
describing, switching to NDIS wrapper and the windows driver fixed it 
for me. If you don't know which chipset is in your laptop run lspci and 
look for wireless.

You might also think about switch to Knetworkmanager, to me it seems 
much simpler to use and more stable, plus it will handle WPA.

Hope this helps
/Lars

Rachel Garrett uttered on 18-03-2007 22:36:
>> The thing is, if it were an issue with the Internet connection, the
>> router, or the modem, then I would expect it to affect both machines
>> equally. Hm.
>
> I'm still mystified, but the computer is online, sort of. After I ran
> dhclient, it would ping slowly and stop, but attempts to get to Web
> pages would time out. Then I disabled the wireless connection on my
> own laptop, and Todd's pinged a little faster, without stopping, but
> still wouldn't get web pages (I'm assuming the issue was timing out).
> However, when I reset the modem and the router, with my laptop still
> offline, Todd's machine could ping more quickly and even browse the
> Internet briefly.
>
> The wireless strength is at 70-80%, so I don't think signal strength
> is the issue.
>
> Any known issues with Belkin routers or wireless cards on Linux?
>
> --Rachel
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