anyone ever heard of this?

am using mandriva 2008.1 64 bit

there is one network that causes my machine to completely freeze up when I try to connect to it. no error messages, nothing.

could it be something to do with the network/auth "type". It shows as Open WEP.

i could try another selection, but thought I'd ask.

What device (ergo driver) are you using? You connect to other networks fine, just not the one?

Using ndiswrapper and the driver is a broadcom 43xxx or something like that. I can find out if needed.

I can connect to every other network that I have tried.

I will ask the admin what "kind of auth" the access point is set to as well.

Currently, Mandriva netork center has it as Open WEP

Unfortunately Mandriva wireless tools default to open WEP when something is wrong, just about anything. If the driver is bad it shows open WEP everywhere, and the ussual fix is ndiswrapper. I'm guessing there's nothing wrong with your driver then.

It could be that particular router needs to be reset before Mandriva will connect. I've seen that quite a few times. (day before yesterday in fact)

Try using the tool in mcc, not the "network center," to set up the connection. mcc>network and internet>make new connection. You should always set up every network with that tool and not "network center" the first time. If it hooks with net center the first off, you're lucky.

Hmmmm

????

According to our admin, this access point is basically setup the way my one at home is, and is the same model even.

I can try "power cycling" it I guess.

Seems like an odd thing though.

Is your hypothesis that a config change to the router might "require" a reset for my box?

Odd indeed. Very, very odd.

Just the last couple of weeks I witnessed this. Identical routers, identical configurations, one Mandriva wireless client. It would connect at the one place and not the other, no matter how many times I tried... everything. (rebooting, wiping/reseting the connection, trying again a different day...)

Only until I reset the router could I connect in this one location. There is no rational explanation, but after days of trying everything else, a 2 second power cycle on the router and the wireless connected instantly, and has done so thereafter consistently at this location. (alas, this computer has a lot of other problems...)

Not germane to this topic, but the same computer actually shut off a different brand of router using the same configuration. (WPA2/PSK) After it connected the transmitter light would go out on the router and all other lights came on steady, e.g. all the wired port lights came on, even without a cable in them. All traffic was locked out of the router.

If I turned this machine off, the router came alive again. (for all other clients, Linux and windows)

So I've seen some funky stuff going on in the electromagnetic realm, specifically with Mandriva... and to be fair this rather poor excuse for a laptop is probably more to blame.

I've restarted an entire network from the ground up 2, 3 times before the wireless client would behave, on a couple of occasions.