I am running Fedora core 3 on a Sony Vaio sub note book with a Linksys wireless (pcmcia) pc card. My home network configuration is some thing like this CableModem->Linksys wired Router->Linksys WAP 11 Wireless router.

My (Fedora) Linux laptop connects to the network (using the wireless pc card) and drops off after some time. Some times I see that happens after the power led on the pc card goes off, but some times even when its on.

I checked the out put of iwconfig and saw the power management to be off, so don't think the power management is the problem (unless iwconfig is not working properly with the linksys card).

But I see if I keep pinging my wireless router 192.16.1.1 (or yahoo.com) the connection seems to be steady (that is just do a ping 192.168.1.1, it just keeps sending packets until the ping is killed). So had a cron job that pings the wireless router every minute (ping -c 1 192.168.1.1, that is ping once), but still I see the connection drops quite often.
When I did a ps -eaf | grep dhcp, I see a quite few (dhcp client) process (around 20) hanging in there which might have started every time I reconnected to the network after the connection was dropped.


My other laptop (HP with wireless inbuilt) running windows xp works fine with NO connections being dropped. Can any one please help me with this.