RE: Vigor routers and Belkin wireless PCI cards

["Stephen Houston" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It mightn't be a duff board. I have a Vigor 2600VG and tried to get the
Belkin 802.11b PCI card to work with it. No joy at all, it just couldn't
see the signal even when it was about an inch from the router.  I
thought the card was faulty so exchanged it for another, but it still
didn't work.

The odd thing is that I have a laptop with an Intel mini PCI card
running 802.11b and it can see the router no probs, and the belkin PCI
card connected fine to my Linksys WRT54G.

I replaced the belkin card with a cheapo USB one and it worked at a
range of about 2-6 inches from the vigor while it could see the linksys
at normal ranges.

It appears that the drayteks have problems talking to some wireless
chipsets, see forums.draytek.co.uk.

(Yes I had MAC filtering swtiched off).

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Benfield, John (IT Services, ID) [mailto:john.benfield@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 December 2004 12:35
To: Stephen Houston
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Vigor routers and Belkin wireless PCI cards


>Does your vigor have MAC address filtering ?.

Did have - turned that off

>Is the pci card set for dhcp or static address ?

Should be dhcp, but worth checking

>Can you turn off all other wireless connections to see if it is
an issue of
>the vigor not switching between 11b and 11g and just try your
new card.

Not something I have tried. I'll see if I can get it work with
11g.

>Does device manager show the pci card as correctly configured
or as "other"

No sure, but the windows wireless network manager can see it, so
I'm guess it's okay from that side.


I've tried both the standard windows manager and the Belkin
supplied one, and neither see any signal. It could just be a duff board.




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