Airlink PCMCIA cards

Does anyone have experience with Airlink 802.11g PCMCIA cards?

I setup a wireless network with a Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT for some and am having trouble connecting to the WLAN. There is one other client that has a Netgear card that doesn't seem to be having an issue with the network.

The network is 802.11b/g using WPA2 AES for security. No MAC filtering or hidden SSID.

According to the driver app, there is decent signal strength and link quality, but the computer won't get any IP address other than 169.x.x.x on that doesn't work. I have tried using patch cable into the back on the switch ports but that defeats the purpose of having wireless. It takes several reboots and occasionally it will connect but that's maybe 1 in 6 attempts to connect.

Previously the Airlink card was used with a 802.11b network using WEP encryption, but the reason for the 802.11g upgrade was mainly for WPA2 AES.

Airlink has only released one driver for the card in 2005 or 2006 and no updates.

I have line of site to the router at a distance of about 25 ft, no walls. But then even at 3 ft it acts the same way. Wired works fine and the Netgear cards works fine.

I'm just wondering if Airline is POS.

I think my next step is maybe to change the encryption to WPA TKIP, but I'd prefer to use WPA2 AES.

Computer is a Dell C610 running Win2k SP4.

 

wha software did you use to connection? Did you put in the SSID in the advanced properties of your network adapter? Think you needed to do that with W2k--never tried wireless with w2k so I am not certain

 

I am using the Airlink driver application that's on their website. Win2k doesn't natively support wireless so it's necessary to use that application.

I've pretty much narrowed down the issue and determined that the Airlink card is a piece of crap. At 4 ft the stats on the WAP indicate that the SNR is more than 10 lower than another client that's 25 ft away.

No other adapter has a problem with that WAP.