Compatibility issues between wg511v2 and Belkin Pre_N Wire..

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<jw.bell@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104875226.612581.49290@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> All,
>
> Are there known/previously experienced compatibility issues between
> wg511v2 and Belkin Pre_N Wireless Router?
>
> Has anyone else successfully used one of the wg511v2 cards with this
> new router? If so what if anything did you have to do to get them to
> work?
>
> We recently added several Belkin Pre_N Wireless Routers/Access
Points
> (F5D8230-4) to our network. Once configured all of our new Belkin
cards
> as well as mixed bag of Proxim, Orinoco, and older Netgear cards
worked
> flawlessly. However we have added a signifigant number of new
wg511v2
> cards and none of these is able to connect/stay connected to the new
> Belkin APs.
>
> We have tried the Netgear's current release of the
> driver/firmware/client listed on the site as well as trying the beta
> release also listed as of 1/4/05. For our testing, we disabled WEP,
> enabled broadcast SSID and allowed access to all wireless clients in
> place of restricting the MACs of wireless clients, but disabling all
of
> these settings did not affect the ability of the wg511v2's not being
> able to connect. At the same time all other clients were able to
> connect with or without the security settings in place. On occasion
we
> were able to see the AP in a scan with all security tools disabled,
but
> when attempting to connect the card would fail to communicate with
the
> AP. We are not new to the wireless game...however this is the only
card
> (wg511v2) that we are having problems incorporating into our
network.
>
> Our wireless environments include:
>
> APs/BridgesRouters:
> Orinoco 1000, 2000, 4000
> Proxim Tsunami MP11
> Netgear MR314, MR814v2
> Belkin Pre_N(F5D8230-4)
>
> Wireless Cards: Orinoco Gold (prisim)
> Proxim a/g Orinoco Gold
> Proxim a/b/g ComboCard
> Netgear ma401
> Netgear wg511v2
>
>
> BTW: we have tickets open with both Belkin & Netgear, but no
responses
> yet.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> BurntEnd



Interesting...Sounds like a job for a wireless protocol analyzer.
There is one called Linkferret at http://www.linkferret.ws
that supports the Netgear ma401 and the Orinoco Golds. It has a 30 day
free evaluation. I would install it on a laptop
to monitor what is going on when a netgear wg511v2 tries to connect.
You have the option to turn off beacon capture
but should capture a few to a file. Then capture the card trying to
authenticate and associate with the belkin. To keep it simple
only have one device being captured. You can save these captures
(detailed reports) in html or text and if you have someplace to stick
them on
the web we could have a look or maybe you could attach them to the
group.
No promises, but it sounds like the only way to see whats happening
since wireless is invisible.

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Airhead,

Thanks for the idea/link to 'linkferret.ws'. I will see about
liberating or purchasing another of the new Routers/APs and setting up
a test site to see about capturing the traffic from the cards. Right
now there is just too much wireless traffic in our environment to try
and just expose and capture the data from just one card, so I may have
to set this up at home were I can control the amount of chatter from
other APs.

As well for you and anyone else who want to jump in until I get this
data captured I am open to other ideas.

As an aside: Wireless is catching on in the residential non-IT
professional/tech junkie users, pre holidays there were two APs in my
neighborhood (mine and the guy next door from who works for SBC on
their VoIP network), now in the last three days there are more than ten
displayed, which means getting quiet places to test is going to get
tougher. I am not even going to tackle the lack of basic security being
implemented on all of these new APs.

Thanks again,

BurntEnd