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[mdlbear]

I'm having an intensely frustrating time getting the wireless card on pocketnaomi's computer working. It seems to be willing to work on either Windows (98) or Linux, but never twice in a row on the same machine. It actually connects in both OSs, but has problems with DNS; I'm beginning to suspect some oddity in either the access point or the router. The really frustrating thing, though, is that it *has worked* at one time or another on both OSs. Just not reproducibly.

Anyone remember whether Win98 uses UDP or TCP/IP for DNS? That might have something to do with it. If I had time I'd upgrade the AP to OpenWRT; as it is I may just haul out my travel router and see if I can get that working.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I always leave both UDP and TCP open for DNS. What wireless card is it? What Linux?

[mdlbear]

I was under the impression that I did, too, and as I said it's been working on and off. It's an Airlink+ 802-11g card, and the pre-release version of Ubuntu 8.04 (which is the only Ubuntu that has drivers for the card and configures the laptop's video correctly without requiring hand tweaking.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If nothing else, given that it's a PCMCIA card (right?) I could let her borrow my card that works and I could poke around for another one that works (since I don't have to have my laptop on a daily basis)...

[mdlbear]

It's PCMCIA. I can get it to work on Ubuntu by going into the manual network configuration dialog, turning off roaming mode, and making sure it gets its address from DHCP. There doesn't seem to be any obvious way of making it connect automatically on startup; it seems to *require* the dialog box.

Windows is even weirder -- it's worked once or twice, but most of the time it doesn't. It claims to be connected, but you can't actually get packets through.

[callibr8]

Wishing you and technoshaman the best of luck in sorting this out... and congratulating myself on my good judgement for NOT trying to do it myself before the Sunday two-fers.

[mdlbear]

Thanks. If I can't get it working reliably here, you and technoshaman may well have to jump up and down on it a little; at this point it's hard to distinguish which parts of the problem are due to routing and which parts are the box itself.