Unable to wirelessly connect to internet via 2WIRE router
I have been having some very annoying trouble while trying to wirelessly connect to the internet on my laptop. There are several things that seem to be going on:
1. At random for about 2 seconds I can connect to the internet before it stops working. Via manual configuration I open it, check the box to enable the wireless connection, click on close, and about 45% of the time a web page will load and then the internet dies and upon opening up the manual config again I notice that its then unchecked itself(this is 5% of the time)
2. About 95% of the time however when I check the box to enable wireless, click close and try to access a webpage nothing loads, and when I reopen the manual config box the box for wireless internet is still checked
3. I have been able to connect to the internet wirelessly at my dads house. He has a Linksys router but at my moms house(where the problems are) she has a 2WIRE HomePortal 1800HW
4. At my dads house I have to enter the DNS information of the ISP to get to the internet not the IP address of Linksys router(192.168.1.1)
5. At my moms house 2WIRE configures the wireless to use the router as the DNS(via the IP 192.168.1.254) instead of using the ISP DNS info(The DNS info is auto changed when I connect via a wired connection).
6. The connection never seems to last for more than two seconds before it dies
7. The two second spurts of internet have happend when I put in the two DNS servers of the ISP and with I put in the IP of the router as the DNS server
8. Under manual configuration when I go to select the Network Name from a list the SSID of the router DOES show up 100% of the time
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and all updates are installed so I know everything is up to date and I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 Laptop. I know that its nothing to do with the hardware because as I mentioned above I can connect with no problem at my dads house its just that at my moms house I am unable to connect no matter how I configure the settings even though the wireless network shows up in the list of possible networks.
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