Originally Posted by KS_Sci

I'm on my third day of WiFi. Yeah, I held out for quite a while, until a sale on equipment really made it necessary.

I'm using a Netgear MR814 wireless router/AP, a Netgear MA701 compact flash card in a Dell Axim X5, and a Netgear MA521 PCMCIA card in a Win98 laptop.

I have been using Ministumbler on the Axim. When I first installed it, it seemed to work properly. It detected several AP's in the area, including my 814 and a few others. I took it downtown, and it found quite a few AP's in a couple of blocks (I knew a coffee shop there had an open public AP, but five others popped up as well).

I've set up a profile for ministumbler so that I can switch my Axim to ssid="ALL" and no encryption. At home, I have my AP set up for 64 bit encryption, no SSID broadcast and exclusive MAC address permission.

So when the Axim is in "Ministumbler" profile, it should be in the OEM configuration, and it should find all access points like it did before.

But it doesn't; now, my 814 is invisible even when I turn the ssid broadcasting back on and turn encryption and MAC exclusivity off. However, the card configuration utility on the Axim has an AP browser, and it /does/ see the AP. Mini just has a blank page. I've tried turning it off and on, and I've tried soft resets--to no avail.

It isn't just at home--I don't seem to be able to pick up the APs at the coffee shop now either.

Is it possible I've screwed up some configuration? Should I just delete and reinstall Ministumbler? Or is there something obvious I'm missing?

It is the newbie forum, and I'm not used to being a newbie in any tech area; but I'm late getting on this boat.

Jim