701SD wireless

[Norm, VK3XCI]

G'day Scott
Yep the "blue light comes on", that's how I can see all the other networks. 
Hardware seems to work OK, just won't authenticate.

If it's an Atheros chip, how come the kernel recognises it as Realtek? I wonder 
if there was a chenge of chipset at some stage. This little monster has ALWAYS 
given me WiFi problems from the moment I bought it! 9.04 and XP are the only 
OS's that have worked, and both flawlessly!

Just been through the AP set-up, copy/pasted the key, no joy. 3 other lappies 
and 1 PC seem to think it's OK :).

Now here's something....

took it to work, there are some non-encrypted wireless nets at the TAFE. 
Connected perfectly??? Next stop McDonalds. Wonder if there's a protocol problem 
with my gateway? I'll set it up open /no encryption and try later!






73 de Norm, VK3XCI
Mildura, Australia
The Wintersun City
QF15bt.

On 20/05/2010 08:36, Scott Evans wrote:
> Can we just back track a little...
>
> When the Eee PC is powered up is the blue LED active? if not then the
> wireless card has been disabled with the "FN + F2" key combination. Also
> as previously mentioned, double check the BIOS to ensure that the
> wireless is enabled (default is not enabled)
>
> As for the make of the chip for the wireless is an Atheros type.   I
> have 2 Eee 701SD here, both using Lucid netbook edition and the wireless
> is working just fine!
>
> I too have an old WiFi gateway that only uses 40bit WEP (used with MAC
> filtering as well) so maybe also check (or reset) the password in your
> WiFi gateway (remember to update password in all other items that use
> the gateway!)
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