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Problems with D-Link DWA-520 Wireless 108g Desktop Adapter.

Started by John, 2008.09.23, 01:15:50

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John

Hi,

I went out and bought a D-Link DWA-520 Wireless 108g Desktop Adapter card for my desktop to play around with. It's an Atheros chipset based card - not sure exactly which - and used GenMAC to install drivers and followed the included readme file. All went well but now have an issue connecting to my router using XWLAN310 widget. For some reason I can see my neighbours' wireless Access Points except mine. I manually put my details in and Voila I was connected but only for short periods of time. After playing around with the properties to try determine what's going on my system totally froze up with the only option being to uninstall XWLAN ( The only way I could get my working system back ).

Even using the VIO window command SCAN.EXE shows only surrounding Access Points and can connect to one which has no security at all ( Pity they recently enabled their security after I mentioned it as free internet access would've been great :) ), I've double checked the entries on my router to ensure my SSID is not hidden etc and have no problems seeing and connecting to my router from Linux/Windows.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


John.

The Blue Warper

Hi, John!
As you can see all other WiFi LANs but yours, it sounds like you're having some trouble in the 'pairing' between your card and your Access Point.
Did you check your protocol/encryption settings?  Maybe something in WLAN settings doesn't match your access point capabilities or settings.  I'm thinking of a possible mismatch related to the security protocol of your WiFi devices: for example, you might have set WPA (or WPA2) for the device and WEP in WLAN settings (or something like).  Or you might have set TKIP and AES for the data encryption method.
You should be able to verify your access point settings by pointing your browser (use Linux or Win for this, if you can't access it from OS2/eCS) to its IP address in your LAN, and change them if needed, in order to have matching values.

Sorry if I told you something obvious or something you've already tried..

Good luck!