wireless 802.11b, traffic stops

[Daniel Yankowsky]

Hello all,

I have a desktop computer running Windows XP Pro and a generic (Xterasys)
802.11b wireless network card. This card is connected (wirelessly, of
course) to a Linksys BEFW11S4 802.11b wireless gateway and router.
Everything is configured correctly, as I can connect and have everythign
work fine. However, every so often my connection's traffic stops dead. I
still have signal, but I can't transfer any data (can't even ping the
router). This seems to happen whenever I am transferring a lot of data
(playing a game, downloading the latest Fedora core CD images, etc.).

After reading some support issues, I came across the Microsoft knowledge
base article 828940
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828940). It
appears that this is the problem that I am suffering. However, I cannot
acquire the hotfix as my copy of Windows is from my school (completely
legit, I think it's through the Academic Alliance) and my product ID has
used all of its incident reports allotted. In any case, I was wondering if
anyone either:

A. has a solution to this problem
B. has this hotfix, as it appears that it would solve my problem

Thanks in advance,

Dan Yankowsky

 

[Pavel A.]

Not likely that KB828940 is relevant here - it seems to affect only WPA capable
APs.
However if you want to try it, do contact MS support and request this patch -
just never tell them about Fedora, let it be XP SP2