Ever since my notebook was upgraded from Win2K to WinXP I have been having problems with my wireless connection...
The main problem is that the connection keeps dropping - just for a few seconds - but dropping nonetheless. Unfortunately, even just the few seconds is enough to create problems with my VPN connection to work, or with the authentication to a public access point in an airport or hotel.
Also, the card wasn't able to consistently get an IP address via DHCP and kept defaulting to a 169. Automatic Private IP Address, which of course couldn't route on my network and get out to the Internet.
I searched the Cisco site for any known problems with an Aironet 350 mini-pci card and Windows XP - no luck.
I tried updating the firmware / driver for the card - no luck.
I tried searching the Microsoft site for known wireless connection problems - no luck.
Finally, I started Googling.
After a fair amount of trial and error on the search string, I finally came up with some suggestions which were helpful.
For the APIPA, the following page references were valuable:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8548070~mode=flat~start=0
and
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9580041~mode=flat
and
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/27129/27129.html
which I found with the following Google search: http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=windows+xp+tcpip+%22alternate+configuration%22
For the connection dropping, I reconfigured Cisco wireless adapter to use PSP-CAM (FASTPSP) instead of CAM as the power saving mode on the advanced properties.
I have also been told to try disabling the Wireless Zero Configuration service in the XP Services management window if I continue to have problems (which knock on wood I have not - so far).
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Posted by David at March 27, 2004 07:04 PM | Categorized under: A day in the life, Reference