Hi gang,
I've got a ma401 card from netgear. It worked beautifully under linux
(better than in windows even). Today I switch on my laptop, and I no longer
get a link to my network with the card. I figure I must've had a power
glitch and my firewall isn't giving out dhcp address, so I restart it. Still
no link. I check the settings of my wireless router, all good. I boot my
desktop to see if my usb wireless card works, it does. None of my settings
on my laptop have changed, I checked. I tweak with iwconfig until my hands
are sore, no luck. So I finally call netgear because I figure that it is a
hardware issue and I need to send in the card to have at least the antenna
replaced. Tech support says, "I'm sorry but we can only trouble-shoot on
windows so we can't help you." I tell them, "It's not a software issue,
nothing has changed with my software from last night, everything is the same,
the card is not picking up the link from the router, it's not functioning,
it's a hardware issue..." They say, "But we need to troubleshoot in
windows." I say, "Look, I've turned encryption on and off, I've tried
different modes, I've tried different channels, I've turned rts and frag on
and off [note: now it's not accepting values, another clue that this is a
hardware problem]. Nothing works, your card is broken and I want to send it
in." I'm told to hold. "I'm sorry, we cannot help you. We need to
troubleshoot in windows." I slam the phone on the reciever so hard I think I
nearly break it. Now I am pissed, and I still have a broken card.
Does anyone else have any history with wireless antennas not working all of
the sudden? This card hasn't even been out of the house, I leave it here
when I go out for crying out loud!
My next attempt will to disable encryption and go back to wvlan_cs to see if
that jogs this thing. But I truly think it's hardware; nothing, NOTHING, on
my laptop changed, I didn't even turn it on this morning!
Wes
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