wireless troubles

[AndrewLubinus89]

I have a linksys wireless card running with linuxant right now and it seems to work only part of the time. I have the essid, channel, and wep set up right but it displays no connection. I tried using iwlist eth1 ap and it listed the ap and I put eth1 (the wireless card) on "ap auto" and it wouldn't connect. I had the same problem manually setting it as well. Sometimes it would connect just after sitting there long enough. Any ideas? Thanks,
Andrew

[JayMan8081]

Maybe try changing the channel that the AP and card use. When I originally setup my wireless network the same thing would happen to me on my laptop. I had left the router and card on the default channel (6) which was getting a lot of interference from cordless phones, microwaves, and other things. This could be a big deal if you are in an apartment building as I was since you could be getting interference from other people's devices as well.

[AndrewLubinus89]

Hey thanks that cleared it up. Before I had it on a different channel and it didn't make a difference. But after you mentioned that I noticed that my parents put up a cordless phone right next to the router. (oops)...

[JayMan8081]

No problem, glad I could help. Some things are unavoidable though. I changed the channel on my router and it still drops the signal whenever I cook something in the microwave. :p