Sunday night, my Linksys WAP11 was working great! Monday morning, none of our laptops could reach it. I also could not reach the config web pages on the wired LAN. I ran the Linksys config utility, and it also could not find the WAP11. I hauled the unit to work and plugged it into the LAN there. It worked great! Hauled it home and it still would not work (either wireless or LAN). Running the site survey utility on one of the laptops, I found another new 802.11G network on the same channel. It was running with no encryption, so I tried doing an ssh login to my server through it. Worked fine! Looked at the server log for the IP of the login and found it corresponds to a DSL from the local phone company (not my DSL provider). So... figuring MAYBE this is an RF interference problem, I pulled the antennae off the back of the WAP11 and powered it up again. I was then able to reach the config web pages and change the channel. Put the antennae back on, and all is well.
So... can RF interference (especially 802.11G) tie up the processor in the WAP11 so much that it won't even respond to http requests from the LAN? That's my only explanation as to what's going on. Any other ideas?
THANKS!
Harold