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Windows, Networking and Software
FAQ, Tips, Hints, and Wisdom for Windows 98x/XP
David Gok 193
Go to the store and next to each other are a Linksys PCI card adapter and a Linksys WPC11 version 3.0
card. They will not work together! Why? The WPC11 V 3.0 is Prism 3. Linksys PCI adapters -do not-
support Prism 3 cards. This has caused untold grief for many.
Linksys AP 2.2 Problem List (7/19/2002)
Note: the 2.2 firmware version 1.010 is on the downloads CD.
WAP11 2.2 - Detailed Problem List! => SOLUTIONS!
I just spoke to Linksys tech support and relayed a detailed list of problems that we are having with the
WAP11 2.2. I know they are definitely problems with the 2.2 because if we place a 1.0 in the position of
the 2.2, everything works fine. I'll go ahead and detail the list below, please feel free to add to it!
EDIT: All of our client adapters are Orinoco Gold PCMCIA cards -
These are the problems we have encountered so far on our wireless network that utilizes (4) WAP11 2.2's:
1) Wireless clients are only able to ping the access point that the client is currently associated with. Ping
requests to other access points come back as "timed out". [UPDATE: NOT fixed with new beta firmware
1.010! When only one access point was updated with the new beta firmware and the rest were running
1.009, I could ping every access point while associated with the upgraded AP. Now that all AP's are
upgraded to 1.010, we are back to our original situation where we can only ping the AP the client is
associated with!]
2) Encryption in general is broken; both these problems were immediately fixed when encryption was
toggled OFF - read subpoints below.
[UPDATE: BOTH issues below are fixed if you change the "Transmission Rates" option on the WAP11 to
"1-2 Mbps" instead of "1-2-5.5-11 Mbps". If you leave the Transmission Rates option at "1-2-5.5-11 Mbps"
but change your Orinoco Gold driver to the Spring 2001 release (Before they implemented the fragmented
packets encryption change .. see other post) issue 2A is resolved but issue 2B is not.]
[UPDATE #2: Anyone having problems with encryption between the WAP11 and the Orinoco Gold card
should try this! The Orinoco Gold driver fragments encrypted packets (INCORRECTLY!) being
transmitted at 11 Mbps at 564 bytes. Edit the registry (Using DrTCP) and set the MTU for your wireless
card to 540. This will cause Windows to fragment the packet itself at 540 bytes, and it will never hit the
limit to be fragmented by the Orinoco driver. It took 8 hours of testing today, and this solution resolved
BOTH problems listed below! Orinoco has been notified of the problem with their driver ...]
2A) With encryption turned on, users are unable to login into any website that requires a username and
password. After submitting the login information, the connection simply sits there with no response from
the remote website.
2B) You are unable to spool any wireless print job with encryption enabled. Jobs will eventually error out
after a period of one or two minutes. No data is ever transmitted to the remote printer, and the remote
printer never acknowledges any kind of job.
3) MAC Address Authentication does not work .. period. I removed a client's address from the table, and
then disabled and re-enabled the wireless connection. The connection established fine, and data was being
transmitted normally. [UPDATE: Fixed with new beta firmware 1.010!]
It is clear that there are definitely some issues between Linksys WAP11 2.2 AP's and Orinoco Gold client
adapter cards. The latest driver release from Orinoco seems to break some features, or at the very least,
change some things that Linksys will also need to modify in order for these products to work together.
Linksys BEFW11S4 V2 – MAC Filtering
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