From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2325084 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:34:06 -0500 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users List" Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:33:52 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] 'Throbbing' WiFi indicator on TPad T60 Message-ID: NOTE: Below are comments on this thread AND on one w/Subject: "TPad T60 Connect to Linksys BEFW11S4 - Security Settings" I have also added a comment on the other thread that it seems appropriate to consolidate the two under this one. >___________________________________________________________________ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:09:30 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote: >On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:18:41 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote: > >>In , on 02/15/09 >> at 09:37 PM, "Carl Gehr" typed: >>>Therefore, I can only attribute the problem to the hardware. But before >>>I open a hardware ticket with IBM/Lenovo, I'd like to know if anyone else >>>has seen the problem and resolved it without a service call. >> >>I have the same configuration, and have never seen that problem. > >Thanks, Julian! Somewhat confirms my knee-jerk reaction that it is a >hardware problem... > >After I sent the posting, I have had two other bits of strange >behavior: >1) While normally, as I indicated, flipping the switch for > the radio OFF/ON would bring back the steady light, a > couple of times last night, it kept blinking even with > the switch in the OFF position. >2) Then, this morning, even with the light steady ON, the > system lost contact with the router/AP. Required a re-boot > to get it back. [The router was OK.] > >I'm not sure the latter problem is part of the same problem, though, >because I've lost the connection a couple of times since I changed the >AP security from WEP64 to WEP128. Until this morning, recycling the >power on the router/AP would re-establish the connection without a >reboot. This morning, it did not. If the connection keeps dropping, >I'll go back to WEP64 to see if the dropped connection continues to >happen. OK, here's the current, not very happy, state of things: * Placed HW call and replaced the WiFi card. ==> Made little or no difference! I've not placed another call, and won't until I can tie the problem down a bit more. * The connection is still dropping, but I can *usually* get it back by turning the radio OFF/ON and waiting for xWLAN to reconfigure the network connection. The connection seems to last a 'few hours' [no hard/fast interval known at this point]. Just another point to ward off some anticipated questions: * This is not an issue of 'no traffic on the link' because of two things I've done: 1) I have PMPING running all the time, throwing PINGS at my two routers [one is the AP, one the main router to the ISP] every five minutes. 2) I have PMMail [E-Mail client, if someone is not familiar with the package] set to request download of new mail every FOUR minutes for each of five accounts, plus once an hour for a sixth account. So, there is plenty of traffic that should keep the connection from a time-out. * Related to the other thread that I started regarding: "TPad T60 Connect to Linksys BEFW11S4 - Security Settings" - It was suggested that I should install the latest firmware update for my Linksys router/AP so I could update my WiFi security from WEP64 to WPA-TKIP. - I did the firmware update. Still could not connect. - So, I backed off to WEP128. Connected, but this regular dropping of the connection started. - Now, I am back to WEP64 and the connection still drops, but just not as often as with WEP128. Now, it is typically a matter of some number of hours instead of a part of an hour. ==> I am about to go back to the firmware level that I had prior to the V1_52_02 update. [The old level was V1.50.14.] I'm getting desperate for some solutions to these issues. Enough so that I'm questioning my entire commitment to eCS. I used to use eCS because it was so stable. [Note: "was" not "is" stable.] I just don't have the time to spend baby sitting this system. Please! Any suggestions on this whole list of related items? -- TIA, Carl