D-Link DWL-G550 going up and down

jaa1180 · 12-30-2006, 03:51 PM

I bought a D-Link DWL-G550 wireless card. I has been working great, except for some reason after some time, about 10 minutes or more, the network connection is not working any more. I can restart the network services and it starts working again.
Also, I have noticed after restarting the services the PC seems slow on responding to opening programs. I am not sure what the problems it.

Card - D-Link AirPremier DWL-G550 Wireless PCI Adapter
No encryption (will do later) on WAP, just SSID set.

any ideas?

/etc/network/interfaces

Code:

root@server1:/home/jeff# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

#auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp

#auto eth2
#iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet static
address 172.16.0.50
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.0.1
wireless-essid *********************************

#auto wlan0
#iface wlan0 inet dhcp

The essid is not real, I replaced the real SSID with stars. About the same amount of characters though.

I have reseated the PCI card... thinking it might not be in all the way and causing communication problems. Still not working right.

Thanks in advanced,
-Jeff

beagle2 · 12-31-2006, 10:10 AM

What chipset/driver does the card use - ubuntu 5.10 yes?

jaa1180 · 12-31-2006, 05:35 PM

I am not sure about the chipset or driver. I cannot find specs on the card. Is there some command that I can do that will show me?

Sorry, I am using Ubuntu 6.10

beagle2 · 01-01-2007, 03:03 AM

Ok type lspci -v or /sbin/lspci -v and post back. Did the card just work without any problem setting it up?
See this for more info - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eShootingGuide