As a newbie to wireless stuff I'd be glad of suggestions here. I have a BY Voyager 2000 ADSL wireless modem at one end. At the other I've been using a USB dongle thingy under W98 without any problems at all, installed, hooked up and sits there for hours without a hitch.
I really want to use Linux on this pc, and the USB part isn't supported so I hit ebay and got a network card and a cheap ethernet connected Access Point. It's a Mercury KOB WL460C ver A1. I'm using drivers downloaded from the manufacturer's web site. A week of learning to drive it (and figuring that it needed a crossed CAT5 cable, not mentioned anywhere!) and I have it working as an Access Point client. It links to the Voyager fine, and delivers a solid connection.
It has one problem - if there's no activity for more than a couple of minutes, it drops the link and the only fix I've found is to remove and reconnect the power lead to it. If I set my email prog. to check every minute or two, the link holds up for hours but if I set the gap to 3 mins, it drops out every time, under both Win and Linux.
Any ideas please?
Thanks,
Steve