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Atheros AR5005G Wireless Problems

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Joeteck

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I just bought a brand new Toshiba Tecra Celeron M notebook from newegg.com. It has a Atheros AR5005G Wireless mini-pci card in it. For some reason it does not want to aquire an IP address. I can connect to my AP with 128Bit WEP and I have full signal strenth, but no IP address gets assigned and then fails with a message of "limited or no conductivity". For ha ha's, I installed a netgear PC card just to verify it was not the notebook having problems, and it worked fine. I fully uninstalled the driver, rebooted, re-installed and the problem still exists. Any help on this matter would be great.

Joe
 
Interesting update:

When I disable WEP on the Access Point, the notebook can aquire and IP address with no issues.

So I guess there is a incompatability issue with Atheros & linksys when doing WEP.
 
JCLW said:
What Linksys AP?

As Newman mentioned WEP is pointless - just google "wep crack"

Update the Linksys firmware, and use WPA2 - Personal.

You'll need this MS Update (you should probably get it regardless): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917021


I have a WAP55AG AP. But when I go to linksys there are two version types. How do I know what I have?

I currently have firmware version 1.1.

Edit: I figured it out. I used Pre-shard key and all worked. I guess WEP does not work with older cards with SP2

Thanks for the help!
 
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