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On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 17:06 +0000, Simon Robert wrote: > Hi > > I have a wifi extender which broadcasts the wifi signal accross the yard > to a holiday cottage. The signal is picked up via a devolo plug. It's > got an essid of cottagenet, while the signal from the d-link router is > called frognet. Both are wpa encrypted and use the same key. > > The rather nice laptop I leave in the cottage has no problem linking to > cottagenet. It uses the ralink r73 driver and is mandriva 2009 gnome. > Likewise my assus eeepc has no problem. > > I want to switch the laptop for an old HP Omnibook, (60MB ram). With > puppy linux this actually runs pretty fast, well within the range of > acceptable. I bought a d-link usb wifi adapter, puppy detects it and it > works, also r73. Well it does with frognet, it will not work with > cottagenet. It just keeps scanning until it runs out of time and does > not pick up an access point. > Is one ipv4 and one ipv6? perhaps Old is too old? Are they both on the same channel? can you force the channel on the "Omnibook" > Likewise I tried to boost the signal to my mothers PC by using a solwise > wifi extender, you plug it into the mains and it picks up the signal > like a devolo plug would and then broadcasts it. The eeepc when offered > the choice of frognet or the new one will happily go for either. The PC > will not attatch to the new one (yardnet) and infact will not attatch to > either when it (the plug) is switched on. (the omnibook has only one > point to attach to as it's out of range of anything else). > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Simon > > Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!) Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html