On 12 Aug 2006 18:05:24 -0700, chawmp@ntlworld.com wrote in
<1155431124.435528.52460@74g2000cwt.googlegroups.c om>:

>I just upgraded to the 10.5.0.0 drivers for XP today from 9.x, to deal
>with the security issues recently discovered in the old drivers. Since
>upgrading, my laptop will connect to the AP (Linksys WAP54G, firmware
>version 3.04), but every 10 seconds or so it will lose the connection
>and reassociate. The gap between the reconnections is very regular.
>After a while of this I get a couple of minutes of uptime, but then the
>cycle repeats.
>
>The only thing that had changed in my network configuration is the
>laptop's driver version. But I've since tried tweaking power
>management, preamble mode and making sure WZC is disabled on the
>laptop, and messing with the AP's settings (beacon interval was already
>at 25ms, down from the default 100) - all to no avail.
>
>This is extremely frustrating - can anyone suggest anything?

Make sure that power management is disabled.
_Don't_ mess with advanced settings.

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