Good news. After poking around a bit, i have finally made some progress.
Yesterday, i had absolutely no problems connecting to the WAP. I have
even been able to implement WPA AES encryption...nice....
What i did / my findings:
- hardboot the WAP (power on/power off) after config changes
- install the WPC54G drivers on XP SP2 WITHOUT INSTALLING THE LINKSYS
UTILITY !!! I think both programs (XP Wireless and Linksys programs)
caused interoperability problems.
So uninstall everything, then i manually removed the following files
\\winnt\\inf\\oem4.inf (driver definition) and \\winnt\\drivers\\bcml5.sys
(or something like that, actual driver)
Insert the card again, you should get the 'new hardware found'
wizard and point the wizard specifically to the downloaded unpacked
Linksys drivers. This will install the drivers, but not the s****d
Linksys Utility. Reboot.
And after that, no problems found connecting to the WAP.
It could be however, that the interference causing my previous
problems, was not present yesterday during my testing....lets see how
it goes the following days....
PS. If you have an Access Point with SSID broadcast DISABLED, is there
a way to detect these signals ? How can i see that channel 1 is clear
if i have APs that use channel 1 but with SSID broadcast disbaled ??
Will NetStumbler see this AP ?
Geert