Networking :: wireless works at boot but soon disappears



Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 29 2005,16:00)
Does the same problem happen when you use a different OS on the same machine, like maybe KNOPPIX or even MSWindows?

This could eliminate or highlight a hardware problem.

Also, there is a chance that some other 2.4Ghz device like a cordless phone or a neighbor's wireless AP could be interfering in certain situations. Just a shot in the dark.

I tried KNOPPIX but it (wireless) did not *just* work. In the light of this discussion I can try it again. I suppose I should boot more than once - given the flaky-ness. It's just so s-l-o-w loading (anything) off a live cd. Maybe I can try & shove & yank the card once KNOPPIX is up.

I took windoze off before I tried wireless on this ole laptop. I have an old win98 cd - does win98 even do wireless native off the CD - because I'm not exactly downloading drivers off the net via the wireless!  The laptop only has 2 GIG hd so I doubt any newer win32 will fit.  2 gig use to be HUGE  :laugh:
Well I went home and put the Knoppix cd in and booted that with the card OUT. Then I plugged in the wireless card  - and it worked fine. So I thought I'd put the knoppix on the hd and discovered to my *disgust* that 1.7 Gig is not enough room. What is the world coming to??? When even linux won't fit in less than 2 GIG. <rant>People we use to run entire systems on less than that! :( </rant>
I left it pinging and at about 2:00am this morning networking stopped. But after one or two pokes around it was again pinging fine :(  Then for no good reason I rebooted the whole shebang - with the card in this time - which did not seem to be a a good idea, because  when it came up again, it was it own flakey self (on knoppix) this time.
So at least you guys got me to try other OS's. I have Ubuntu (yeah South Africa)  and some other live cd to try again. Seems the magic is to boot without the card and then plug it in once the OS is up. Not the way to run a server ... which is why it is so foreign to me, and not something I tried before.  So the saga continues...
No, Windoze 98 does not do anything off the CD. The best you can do is boot with a DOS floppy with drivers. Win98SE fits in less than 300MB on a laptop.
The need for smallness is one of the reasons DSL exists, and it's very stable and fast once you set it up the way you want it. It boots up faster off the CD than Win98 does off a hard drive, and shuts down faster too. You can run the server right off the CD and just keep your data on a hard drive or other media, like a pen drive.
How much RAM do you have? I'm running DSL very well with a Toshiba 480CDT with 64MB RAM. There have been issues, but they've all been solved right here on the board.
Personally, I would not run a server with a wireless connection. There are too many reasons for it to go wrong. It's bad enough when it's wired.

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