<DIV>Have you tried disabling the builtin wlan card and using a pcmcia card?</DIV>
<DIV>Just to see if it is hardware or a software problem.<BR><BR><B><I>Daniel Whitehead <ashrak@iprimus.com.au></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Rowan,<BR><BR>If you have XP sp2 installed, the XP firewall will be turned on by default. <BR>to turn the XP firewall off, go control panel, network connections, right <BR>click on the LAN or WLAN interface that your are accessing the internet by, <BR>and go to the advanced tab, then click settings, and make sure u turn the XP <BR>firewall off. Install a 3rd party firewall, i find that the M$ firewall is <BR>Pox and not decent enough.<BR><BR><BR>regards<BR><BR><BR>Daniel Whitehead<BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Rowan Crowe" <ROWAN@SENSATION.NET.AU><BR>To: <MELBWIRELESS@WIRELESS.ORG.AU><BR>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 7:58 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro<BR><BR><BR>> Yep, I have the firewall disabled.<BR>><BR>> The first thing I did was uninstall Norton AV. I've heard it's hard to get<BR>> rid of this completely...!
I wonder
if that has something to do with it?<BR>> Unfortunately I have to work backwards with this laptop - start with<BR>> everything preinstalled, then disable or uninstall what I don't want.<BR>><BR>> I initially thought it was an MTU/MSS problem but I can see that even 670<BR>> byte TCP packets are being "ignored" (if it was that problem then only<BR>> packets around 1460+ bytes would be an issue).<BR>><BR>> To summarise, the TCP connection succeeds and some data is transferred<BR>> (there doesn't seem to be a consistent amount), but after that XP seems to<BR>> be ignore inbound packets for that connection. If it was a firewalling<BR>> issue then I would expect the connection to fail from the start...<BR>><BR>> BTW can you ping an XP/SP2 computer? I never get any ping replies. I<BR>> presume they're blocked by default.<BR>><BR>> Cheers.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Andrew Wagstaff wrote:<BR>><BR>>>!
It might
have something to do with XP's SP2 built in firewall. Have you<BR>>> tried turning it off ? It is usally turned on by default.<BR>>><BR>>> regards<BR>>><BR>>> Andrew Wagstaff<BR>>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>>> From: "Rowan Crowe" <ROWAN@SENSATION.NET.AU><BR>>> To: <MELBWIRELESS@WIRELESS.ORG.AU><BR>>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:58 PM<BR>>> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] strange wireless problem with XP Pro<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> > I'm trying to get wireless working on a Toshiba Satellite laptop with <BR>>> > XP<BR>>> > Pro/SP2 installed. It sees the AP and associates with it correctly, and <BR>>> > I<BR>>> > can do things like ping (outbound only, it seems). If I try to load a <BR>>> > web<BR>>> > site, it sometimes works but most of the time it stalls.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > I did a tcpdump on the wireless interface on the 'nix gate!
way, and
I <BR>>> > can<BR>>> > see that whilst the XP laptop thinks a connection is closed the other <BR>>> > end<BR>>> > is still sending packets. It's like it never sees certain large <BR>>> > packets.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > A transfer from a local site (the same nix gateway) works better, but <BR>>> > it<BR>>> > still stalls. It's like something is suddenly making the XP laptop <BR>>> > deaf,<BR>>> > and every inbound packet after that point is ignored *for that TCP<BR>>> > connection only*. A ping still works so the interface is alive.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > This is a strange problem and it's difficult to word... I hope I'm <BR>>> > making<BR>>> > sense, and I hope that someone has experienced this before! Prior to <BR>>> > this<BR>>> > laptop I had myself an old clunker with Win98, an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA <BR>>> > card<BR>&!
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> and Avaya's proprietary drivers which worked flawlessly... this one has<BR>>> > wireless built in and the drivers preinstalled.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > Any ideas?<BR>>> ><BR>>> > Cheers.<BR>>> ><BR>>> > To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@wireless.org.au<BR>>> > with "unsubscribe melbwireless" in the body of the message<BR>>> ><BR>>> ><BR>>><BR>><BR>> To unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@wireless.org.au<BR>> with "unsubscribe melbwireless" in the body of the message<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> -- <BR>> No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR>> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 27/04/2005<BR>><BR>> <BR>No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.<BR>Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 27/04/2005<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Brenton (iViLe)<br>Acc!
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