I had a managed WLAN set up with my two computers, one on WinXP and the other on SUSE Linux 9.3. WinXP machine was the AP. WinXP machine has an MSI wireless card with Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Linux machine has a D-Link DWL510 card with a Realtek chipset (if I remember correctly). I managed to install original Realtek ndis drivers with ndiswrapper. This network worked for about a year. Recently I reinstalled WinXP on the AP machine and decided to install SUSE 9.3 on that machine as well (multi-boot). I managed to set up the same network again without much trouble, but then I tried to set it up to work when both machines are running in Linux. Sadly, MSI drivers for my card that works as AP don't support AP mode in Linux (also ndis drivers with ndiswrapper). I set up an Ad-hoc network in Linux and it worked. Now I returned to WinXP and switched it to Ad-hoc as well, and everything worked fine. It worked for a couple of days and the suddenly stopped working today while I was working in WinXP on the former AP machine. Both Windows and MSI's WLAN Utility report that the network is connected. I also tried KWiFiManager in Linux on both computers and they both report that they are connected to my network. However, I tried pinging the other computer from both machines, both in Windows and Linux, and it is unsuccessful. I noticed that green LED on D-Link card is blinking, while the similar LED on MSI card is not. I have no idea what happened. Can anyone help me? Here's what lspci -vv says about my MSI card:
0000:02:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 6825
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
And here is iwconfig output:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"mrezica" Nickname:"c-bg-d-p2-18"
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.437 GHz Cell: 02:E0:36:3C:8E:04
Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:6475-646B-6F Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-34 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:508176 Missed beacon:0
Any ideas?
